3 ms·
I like Mikrotik gear but IMHO their wireless stack isn't great. I moved my four HAP AC devices onto OpenWRT; speed and stability has been much improved, and ro
by james_in_the_uk 5y ago
I like Mikrotik gear but IMHO their wireless stack isn't great.
I moved my four HAP AC devices onto OpenWRT; speed and stability has been much improved, and roaming works much better. If you don't need WiFi 6 then I'd go as far as to say this is a great solution.
- mbreese 5y agoHow hard was it to setup the roaming? That has been my (one?) major complaint with my Ubiquiti APs - I have four of them scattered around my house/garage and moving between them always suffers a bit of a delay in handing over (or refusing to hand over at all). I recently migrated a router (not Ubiquiti) over to OpenWRT and have been happy with the stability. I read a bit about roaming, but thought it looked a little daunting.
- james_in_the_uk 5y agoActually pretty simple. Here's an example: https://parkercs.tech/enabling-802-11r-fast-roaming-transition-on-openwrt/ https://parkercs.tech/enabling-802-11r-fast-roaming-transiti... I did lose the central management interface of Mikrotik (CAPsMAN) but for my home set-up this wasn't a big deal. I used the backup and restore capability in OpenWRT's LUCI interface to clone most of the settings. Roaming / fast transition now works much better. I do still lose a few packets as I wonder around but nowhere near as flakey as on the Mikrotik stack. I did spend an inordinate amount of time optimising channels, signal strength and placement etc. on the Mikrotik stack before migrating over, and so I kept these settings on OpenWRT. I think a lot of making wifi work well is in this particular black art. All things being equal, though, OpenWRT works better for me.