E8450

As of today: BananaPi BPI-R3 Mini - Amazon - currently $90 $110 GL.iNET Beryl AX - Amazon - currently $74 $87 (monthly sales below $75) Zyxel NWA50AX Pro - Amazon - currently $85 Cudy WR3000S - Amazon - currently $60 Cudy WR3000 - Amazon - $50 - beware - only 16MB flash Netgear WAX206 and Linksys E8

The hardware might be a tad underpowered (but also might not) however the available features are impressive for an amazing price point imo. Very happy with the “Linksys E8450 (UBI)” if you can still get them (my 2 cents)

Cudy RE-3000 (officially a repeater; needs a transitionary firmware flashed first) GL.iNET GL-MT3000 Netgear WAX202 Linksys E8450 (needs flashing a special installer first; note: can't go back to stock, the documented procedure fails and bricks the router, making it unrecoverable without a serial ca

You can use both wired and wireless backhaul with Batman-adv, and one of the wired routers on your switch should handle DHCP and act as the WiFi mesh server. That way, if your switch fails, the mesh can still function as a large "WiFi switch," ensuring connectivity. Batman-adv dynamically manages ba

I’ve built out 6 of these, they’re easy AF to get going and solid: https://www.ebay.com/itm/176768865408?_skw=rt+3200&epid=27043038203&itmmeta=01K0KZS7307P97SRYZAD2WFJWZ&hash=item29283ed480:g:W80AAOSwrAxnccRe&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA4FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1fLqzFWHHXqI4JWk7TV0PgYqIKaYBnMJz4z9nDIVZRH535PXk

Currently using a Linksys E8450 without issues. Goes for around $100. Throughput is good, even when you enabling permanent VPN (proton vpn) with close to getting full ISP speed (-700Mb/s). Only downside is that there is not a ton of space available for additional modules, but it has enough for my ne

There was a change in the flash layout, so the old UBI version needed to be upgraded to the new UBI version, which is done by the installer as described in the wiki and github. There might be some chance to get it working following these instructions: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/belkin-rt3200-linksy

I use wax206 openwrt as my main AP. It drops to 2x2 at 160 and beamsteering dies. Keep it in 80Mhz for best performance. Works much better longer distances on 80 because it’s 4x4. Also true for Belkin Rt3200 and linksys E8450. Keep em 80MHz

I use belkin rt3200 which is also linksys e8450/ax3200/arena 6 and they’ve never let me down. I have three here at my house, another two at my bosses house, one for my mothers and am putting two more in a family friends house shortly. They handle up to about 20 devices at 2.4g and another 5 at 5g be

openwrt-24.10.0-mediatek-mt7622-linksys_e8450-ubi-squashfs-sysupgrade.itb This is the name of the file I used. Thanks for the emotional support, I am very frustrated with myself. Is the teardown not that bad? I have no idea how connecting to such a port works and all of the guides I have been lookin