On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 09:00:59AM +0100, 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 been through much of the above too, and finally decided that OpenWRT/LEDE isn't really very helpful.
My major issue is that there seems to be no attempt to update the OpenWRT version for any particular hardware once there is a working version. So, once you have installed a version then that's it. I have a Mikrotik RB2011 running OpenWrt and it's functional but I have to say that's about it. I was aimimg to use it as my main home router with load balancing etc. but it was hard enough simply to get OpenWrt installed so doing clever things felt a bridge too far.
The Mikrotik RB2011 is for sale now (on eBay) if anyone is interested.