[Mesh] preferred router

[Morgan Allen]

Hey awesome! if mesh has routers available I'd love to buy one, range
shouldn't be a huge issue as I live in a big, relatively empty room!

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 3:00 PM, max b <maxb.personal at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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