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

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

Linksys E8450 (just barely good enough, I would certify it only up to 450 Mbps for PPPoE + SQM) Cudy TR-3000 (compact but powerful) GL.iNET GL-MT6000 (overkill)

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)

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

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

Haven't had any issues so far with the OpenWRT One. It might not be the best price to performance / features, but you won't regret getting it, as it's sure to be well supported by OpenWRT. I've used Linksys E8450 and ASUS RT-AX59U, but both were fairly unstable and had to be restarted ~daily just to

24.10 is great! Been pretty rock solid for a few days now. The settings can be preserved by restoring from a backup but please please PLEASE follow the In case the configuration wants to be preserved section of the OpenWrt wiki for this router otherwise all future firmware flashes will fail. If you

Wifi 6E router I have three Belkin RT3200 / Linksys E8450 routers I might be able to sell to whoever wants them for a decent price. They have OpenWRT installed on them, so if you're not down with that I can't help ya... I use one of them for VD myself and it's been fine, although I haven't done anyt