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That thumbnail looks like those routers are making helicopter motions with their antennas to entertain a child.
Absolutely! I would have never been able to setup VLAN if it were not for this video!
You've posted this right as I'm about to begin setting up an OpenWrt router. Thanks!
What hardware do you recommend?
Are there any that are smart enough for a SMB setting where the APs all scan other networks and then talk to each other and set their own channels and power levels to optimize WiFi traffic with minimal channel of power overlap?
What hardware do you recommend?
Tbh I just picked something that was in their list of supported hardware that also operated with the Wifi bands I needed and had a good amount of Flash and RAM. Try to take the time to research what wifi drivers suck, such as Broadcomm. Mine is a Qualcomm, I got the Linksys MX5300 Velop Mesh, and now that I got my 3 wifi VLANs set it seems pretty nice. Haven't gotten to use it much though so we'll see, but I'm excited.
I do recommend checking how many radios it has because I was maybe considering having my Smart TV on it's own VLAN but I don't have enough radios for that. Maybe I'll put it on the IoT VLAN.
Are there any that are smart enough for a SMB setting where the APs all scan other networks and then talk to each other and set their own channels and power levels to optimize WiFi traffic with minimal channel or power overlap?
Sorry, I don't know anything about this 😅 You'd have to research this.
Many routers support more than one SSID per radio.
Huh, just checked settings and I see that you can add SSIDs to a radio. Awesome, thanks!
Thanks for sharing, i haven't been able to find a good guide, will check it out. Or more accurately a guide that i can follow with ease.
I might get flamed for that, but I just let an llm create me the config files and changed the passwords. That got me already into an working state.
But I think I have to add, that I use the openwrt machine just as dumb access point behind a opnsense box.
But I think I have to add, that I use the openwrt machine just as dumb access point behind a opnsense box.
Ooh, can you go more into that? i have Opnsense as my router and this AP is just supposed to act as a WAP. I was struggling to figure out how to have it pull dhcp from the router and not to configure it on the WAP itself. That and DNS too, if the DNS isn't configured on the interface then I get no inetnet access.
He's great (the pace is awesome for new openwrt users) and the information is still correct.