[Mesh] preferred router

[max b]

Hey Morgan,

I've been out of town for a couple weeks, but just got back and I'll be at
the mesh hacknights 7:30pm-late this coming Tuesday and Thursday if you
wanna swing by. I'll make sure to have a mynet for you. If there's a better
time/place we can figure it out off list.

Max

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Morgan Allen <morganrallen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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