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Best "just works" mesh router for open wrt? (lemy.lol)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I currently have a mesh (wired) google wifi setup but want to switch so something... not google. Preferably wifi 6 but I don't need anything insane.

Cheap is good but I also want to be able to basically ignore it for the next 10 years.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (10 children)

"mesh" is a buzzword that doesn't make much sense (to me at least) if we are talking about wired and routers... what do you mean by it? can you describe your setup?

edit:

Let me clarify :)

Unless I'm mistaken, mesh means that one a bunch of devices, usually wireless access points, connected with each other (in a mesh) with possibly low-quality connections that automatically switch traffic for each other.

If you have ethernet running from the router to the APs, you always want to use that and so you don't want a mesh at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

It’s probably not relevant to the question in the OP, but a mesh between routers makes sense in a dynamic routing scenario. If you have a mesh of routers running iBGP for example, you will always have a path to other routers in the network even if you lose one and the routing protocol will select the best path to the destination network based on what’s available. Also, if we’re talking about devices on the same broadcast domain (like multiple APs serving one SSID), you don’t need a router to forward that traffic. Everyone on the same layer 2 segment can ARP for each other, so it’s not a bad idea to just let your L3 devices L3 and let your L2 devices L2. If there is an issue with connection quality, solve that :)

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