![]() ![]() ![]() I can't say that I would know how to port this over to OpenWrt, but you can use a normal PCI-E wifi card with the raspberry pi compute module 4 and get good speeds out of it: What's your end goal? Just has full Wifi 6 no matter how? Needs to be a complete device you don't have to build yourself? Needs to be cheap-ish? Needs to not consume power like a microwave? Until we get chips that we can actually work with, there isn't much to be done.īut I DO understand why someone might be chomping at the bit to get support, even if they don't strictly NEED faster than ac speeds. You can get an Intel based card for like.$6-15.īut, I also realize that support for the chips needs to come from somewhere. Even when WiFi6 routers were just coming out and in the $500-600 range, the cards themselves were cheap and readily available.Even if your TVs, Xboxs, Phones, and other devices are still stuck using 802.11ac, having your laptop(s) take advantage of the new features can make the older devices work better. There are a LOT of clever little things implemented that go a long way to making everything much smoother. 802.11ax isn't JUST about MOAR SPEEED.Routers are expensive-ish, and getting 6 years from one is better than getting 4. Most people who have aging routers don't really want to buy new stuff from last generation. WiFi6 has been out for several years now.Most people don't buy new routers every 1-2 years.Don't want to go with Belkin because I need to be able to install extra packages. Or: Screw WiFi, get an uncompromised OpenWRT router + proprietary WiFi 6 AP (and lose the centralised network management).It usually turns out to be an old unsupported locked down OpenWRT version Or: A router with OpenWRT pre-installed by vendor, like GL-inet Flint.Xiaomi AX3200 / AX6S: snapshot build, no USB, complicated flashing, ?.TP-Link EAP615-Wall v1: snapshot build, no USB, 802.3at PoE, ?.Tenbay T-MB5EU: Weird vendor, snapshot build (see above).TOTOLINK X5000R: Low on RAM and ROM, no USB but looked like a good option.No USB so you can't even add an USB Ethernet port. Ubiquiti UniFi 6 Lite / LR: Single ethernet port so can't be really used as a router you need a managed switch and VLANs to use it as a router.Belkin RT3200 / Linksys E8450: Only supported in snapshot build => high chances of bugs, no support, effectively a custom kernel so you won't be able to install extra packages.This question gets asked every few weeks, but there's still no good answer. ![]()
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