[kwlug-disc] recommendation for home router

[Doug Moen]

Thanks Khalid.

lspci lists my wifi card as "Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX200".

Wi-Fi 5 == 802.11ac
Wi-Fi 6 == 802.11ax (2.4 or 5 MHz)
Wi-Fi 6E == 802.11ax (6 MHz)
The WRT3200ACM has 802.11ac == WiFi 5.

I'll want newer hardware. Here are the WiFi 6 routers supported by OpenWRT:
https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_16128_ax-wifi

So I think I want a Linksys E8450
https://www.linksys.com/ca/wireless-routers/traditional-routers/linksys-dual-band-ax3200-wifi-6-router-e8450/p/p-e8450/

PS, I also checked freshtomato, which is supposed to be easier to use than OpenWRT, and also quite stable, but they do not support any Wi-Fi 6 routers.

Doug Moen.

On Wed, Jul 14, 2021, at 1:30 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 1:18 PM Doug Moen <doug at moens.org> wrote:
> > My Belkin "Linksys" router is acting weird, so I plan to replace it.
> > The Belkin software is pretty bad, and new hardware would allow me to
> > use the "wifi 6" in my new laptop.
> >
> > So I'd like a recommendation for some decent hardware I could replace it with,
> > and some easy to use open source firmware that works with the hardware.
> >
> > It's a basic home network with wifi and a few ethernet devices. Nothing too
> > fancy, I don't need enterprise features.
> 
> I have been using OpenWRT for many years.
> 
> Recently, I replaced my main router with a used Linksys WRT1900AC v2, which
> also runs OpenWRT, and I have  been happy with it.
> 
> Mind you, I don't know what WiFi 6 is, and therefore don't use it, nor
> know if that
> router has it or not.
> 
> Other similar routers are the Linksys WRT1900ACS (identical hardware to the v2),
> and the WRT3200ACM, which has a faster CPU.
> -- 
> Khalid M. Baheyeldin
> 
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