[TriLUG] Router recommendations

[bak via TriLUG]

I have a couple Archer C7s — got them late last year — they’re just fine. Though 5GHz might be a little excessive for a phone and a printer; they won’t really use it, I suspect. 

Better put OpenWRT on it, too, because TP-LINK’s firmware is mediocre, as I suspect you know already. “Chaos Calmer” works great. Get the ath10k packages to enable 802.11ac support/5Ghz.

If you want to spend $20 less and only need 802.11n support, I found EasyTomato on an ASUS RT-N16 to be rock solid, too.

—bak


> On Jul 3, 2015, at 08:22, Peter Neilson via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> 
> It appears that the wireless transmitter on my TP-LINK TL-WR841ND Ver 3.0 has failed. I think I picked it up in a hurry from an Office-* store about four years ago, but it looks as if it was already three years obsolete at that time.
> 
> So a new one is in probably a better idea than trying to "fix" the current one. What's best for "home use" where my Android phone and my Brother printer are the only wireless clients, at least right now? Wirecutter recommends TP-LINK's Archer C7 (not the C8). It's about $90 on Amazon.
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