On 13/04/2017 09:00, Mark Rogers wrote:
On 10 April 2017 at 16:41, Bill Hill mail@wbh.org wrote:
Personally, for just covering a house I'd play with a couple of OpenWRT routers and OLSRd https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/mesh.olsr
Thanks for this; my main router is running OpenWRT so adding a second OpenWRT router makes sense.
What's a good hardware choice for OpenWRT these days? The supported hardware pages are great except they don't make it easy to find something which is currently widely available.
(Actually I've made the switch to the LEDE Project, which looks like it might have more momentum but I'm not sure. Have any of the other OpenWRT users here considered it?)
I've set up a TPlink WR743 router as a reverse bridge - it connects to the house WiFi and provides networking for various wired devices, the printer, VoIP phone and a NAS. Why the WR743? It was what I had lying around. As for what's good hardware for OpenWRT, well I wish I knew. I've been wanting to get a TPlink Archer C5. Trouble is the V1 works with OpenWRT, the V2 doesn't. I generally prototype things like OpenVPN to a RaspberryPi running OpenWRT and then move to the real router. Easier to wipe a SD card than solder in JTAG headers! I'm watching LEDE, but haven't jumped ship, yet.