[Mesh] preferred router

[max b]

Yeah thanks for reminding us - we should probably update the wiki with that
info.

My recommendation right now would be a tp-link wdr4300 or wdr3600. They're
both dual radio (2.4 and 5ghz) with 5 gigabit ethernet ports (I believe
that the 4 LAN ports are on a switch and the WAN port is its own interface,
but openwrt supports VLAN tagging, so you can do whatever you want with all
5 of them), and 802.11n wireless. They're both fully supported by openwrt
and it's pretty easy to get it on there. They can usually be found for
$40-50. The only difference between the wdr4300 and the wdr3600 is that the
wdr4300 has 3 external antenna compared to the wdr3600's 2 and it has 3x3
on the 5ghz stream compared to 2x2 for the wdr3600.

If you'd like something cheaper, we have a bunch of mynet n600 and n750s
that we could sell you for something like $10-20. They're basically the
same device as the tp-links, but with pcb antennas instead of external.
That just means that the range will be worse. I wouldn't necessarily
recommend them for a medium to large size house, but if you only need to
feed a couple rooms, they could work. They could also be paired with a
longer range extender node. We haven't finished the new firmware for the
picostation extender nodes, but likely we'll pair the mynets with a
picostation and sell them together for $20-30.

The mynets and the tp-links are both currently supported by our mesh
firmware.

If you want the new hotness, it looks like the tp-link archer c7 v2.0 is
the way to go. It's an 802.11ac router, so it can theoretically do up to
gigabit speeds over wireless. The v2.0 is the ONLY one of the c7s that is
currently guaranteed to work with openwrt, but newegg is selling the v2.0s
for $100 a piece. We don't currently have a sudomesh configuration for
them, but we'll likely have a couple to play with sooner than later, so
depending on demand we could probably get it working pretty quickly.


Hope that helps!
Max

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Morgan Allen <morganrallen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've checked the wiki a couple times but cannot seem to find the answer
> I'm after...
> curious what the current best option for both a mesh and home use router
> would be. I've been running OpenWRT on a WRT54G for years but it just
> cannot keep up any more and has zero space available. Basically I need
> something that meets the needs for the mesh network and has a built in
> switch/multiple ethernet ports.
>
> Thanks!
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