Re:Ask HN: Looking for a stable wireless router
by toast0 on Thursday September 23, 2021 @01:44AM
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They're a bit hard to find now, but I've had good luck with the T-Mobile rebrand of the RT-AC68U; although I ended up debranding them and flashing them to Merlin.
OTOH, I live on a large parcel in the woods and can barely see any neighbor's wifi. I can use all 3 2.4 Ghz channels and the four outdoor rated 5 Ghz channels, with basically no interference, so it's wifi on easy mode.
The key thing is to run wireless routers in access point mode, and use something else (I prefer FreeBSD, but have used carrier modems when I was lazy) to do the routing, then you have separation of concerns. If you want to go crazy, I've actually got two FreeBSD routers with failover (CARP) and a custom PPPoE daemon to handoff the session with failover to LTE when the PPPoE session drops.
OTOH, I live on a large parcel in the woods and can barely see any neighbor's wifi. I can use all 3 2.4 Ghz channels and the four outdoor rated 5 Ghz channels, with basically no interference, so it's wifi on easy mode.
The key thing is to run wireless routers in access point mode, and use something else (I prefer FreeBSD, but have used carrier modems when I was lazy) to do the routing, then you have separation of concerns. If you want to go crazy, I've actually got two FreeBSD routers with failover (CARP) and a custom PPPoE daemon to handoff the session with failover to LTE when the PPPoE session drops.