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This week due a wifi network intrusion I bought a Linksys Wrt3200acm. It looks good on paper and it has two boot partitions so it doesn't brick. I installed a d
by escanda 7y ago
This week due a wifi network intrusion I bought a Linksys Wrt3200acm. It looks good on paper and it has two boot partitions so it doesn't brick. I installed a device specific distribution recommended on the forums. Well, the 5ghz wifi range is total crap with Openwrt because the wifi driver is not as advanced as the one shipped by default and with the open source driver it can't transmit at full power.
I ditched Openwrt and installed back the stock firmware. But I am returning this device to Amazon tomorrow.
Which modern device do you recommend?
- gnomesteel 7y agoUbiquiti. Check out the UniFi Dream Machine for all in one. It’s early access right now.
- escanda 7y agoOnly available to US and Canada users sadly :(
- darkpuma 7y agoI've been partial to the Buffalo brand for years, but I have no idea if they're still considered reasonable. The last time I bought one was a few years ago.
- mangix 7y agoIt's even worse. Driver development has stopped: https://github.com/kaloz/mwlwifi/commits/master https://github.com/kaloz/mwlwifi/commits/master Many like the R7800. I do not. The XiaoMi 3G is also a good option. The driver is open source and actively developed. (The USB3 port can cause interference in 2.4Ghz though). Anything based on ipq806x and ipq4xxx should have excellent WiFi performance. (Including the R7800)
- Fnoord 7y agoI would recommend a Ubiquti UniFi [1]. Although I'm so pissed off that I can't deeplink to their UniFi product page that I'm almost not making this very post. Which specific one depends on your needs and budget. [1] https://www.ui.com/products/# https://www.ui.com/products/#
- escanda 7y agoI was a Wisp user for some time so I know the brand and it was a solid device overall. I looked into the UniFi products and the AP plus a controller is almost 100 euros more expensive than the Linksys device. I will look in the future for Ubiquiti devices but I think I am going to use a standard WiFi device (after all it is a one story flat not too big) and perhaps in the future I will buy a barebones so I can run pfsense with the current wifi device as a dumb AP.
- Fnoord 7y agoYou can run controller in the cloud, or on a Raspberry Pi, or on a VM, or ...
- ac29 7y agoOr just on your laptop. The controller is only required for setup, the AP's can run in standalone mode just fine after being setup (they just don't have any user interface to speak of on their own).
- thesmok 7y agoIf you've got just one AP then you don't even need a controller. I just used their iOS app to set up my UniFi AP.
- pseudalopex 7y agoYou might like the AmpliFi line.
- kpU8efre7r 7y agoThis is my exact experience. Wireless performance with OpenWRT is severely lacking.
- dredmorbius 7y agoTurris Omnia: https://www.turris.cz/en/omnia/ https://www.turris.cz/en/omnia/
- escanda 7y agoA bit expensive. Around 100 euros higher than Linksys. I think I will wait for a barebones with pfsense. I miss Freebsd.
- dredmorbius 7y agoAuto-updates (not otherwise supported by OpenWRT) fire-and-forget deployments, extensible hardware (add internal disk, NAS enclosure), and very future-proofed with beafy CPU, storage, and memory. That's worth the modest price premium, and is comparable to similarly-specced proprietary offerings.
- mangix 7y agoThey have a new offering called Turris MOX
- dredmorbius 7y agoRight, a physically modular device.
- simplexion 7y agoZyxel NBG6817. It's what I use with OpenWrt installed and it is rock solid and performance is excellent.