EA9500

If you are not able to go down the mesh route, take a look at the Linksys EA9500 router which you can get on eBay for £50. It's an absolute beast of a router, one of the most powerful routers you can get.

OK, a very delayed follow-up. I have been trying to connect to the EA9500 v1.1 using WiFi and ethernet with the same results as I randomly get back top this problem that needs a solution. I have several machines setup with static addresses in the 192.168.1.* range on my home LAN and use them when tr

I'm the author of the thread, the Linksys EA9500 is way more common than the EA9400 but are nearly identical, the only difference is the EA9500 using a BCM4366C0, while the EA9400 uses a BCM4366B1, other than that, both routers are so similar that you can run the EA9500 build of OpenWRT on the EA940

I know this probably sounds really stupid, but I managed to get Claude to make a working freshtomato port, it boots, but running "nvram commit" crashes the router, and the Wi-Fi radios don't work yet. The image I used is at https://github.com/SomeTechyGuy/freshtomato-arm-EA9500/actions/runs/25607309

OK, so I think I solved the remote access issues. My router was apparently too old to work with Plex correctly. I was using a Linksys WRT1900AC and have switched to a Linksys EA9500. Remote Access has been rock solid since the change and I am seeing good connections.

The spinning admin page on your EA9500 while it still functions as an AP suggests a firmware or interface issue; a factory reset is generally safe but will erase settings, so try clearing browser cache, using another browser, or accessing via Linksys Cloud Manager before resetting.