[Mesh] New Supported Hardware Research

[Matt Senate]

>From what I understand, Western Digital has dropped their line of My Net
products, and instead is supporting My Cloud devices. Those will be really
fun to hack on later on as they get old and cheap (especially for
distributed networking projects, no?) WD has already stopped offering
support for the My Net products and have definitely stopped selling them.
So eventually we will also run out of n600 and n750 stock. Plus, the price
has gone up to near-MSRP for the n750:
https://camelcamelcamel.com/N750-Dual-Router-Wireless-Accelerate/product/B007KZQM9Q

Following the suggestion from Guifi.net visitors years ago -- to build our
network to provide a good service experience, we should use new hardware
(when we can) to get performance boosts from improvements to radio,
power-management, and standards technologies. It seems like we may want to
find the next router to support, and I'm curious what folks have looked at
lately!

It seems the search may be for affordable, good quality,
dual-band/dual-radio routers that are openwrt-compatible. Plus, devices
that support new technologies like 802.11ac (Wave 2?) and 10/100/1000 MBPS
wan/lan ports (more easily take advantage of fiber services from Sonic.net
/ Cruzio / etc). Interestingly, we may also find affordable options from
brands like MikroTik that seem to have more US distribution than before if
I recall correctly.

Here's  my short list from quick research, lmk what you think:

   - Netgear R6220
   https://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/wifi-routers/R6220.aspx
   - TP-Link Archer C7
   https://www.tp-link.com/us/home-networking/wifi-router/archer-c7/
   - MikroTik hAP ac lite https://mikrotik.com/product/RB952Ui-5ac2nD
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