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Best "just works" mesh router for open wrt?
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"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.
Mesh in this case means one wifi network visible to wireless devices with multiple nodes broadcasting it. In my case both nodes are connected via ethernet.
If all nodes are connected through ethernet to each other (or at least one common node) you could go for OpenWRT's 'Dumb AP' setup as well
Edit: Already mentioned here; https://feditown.com/comment/1980836
in my understanding that won't handle roaming between APs as good as a mesh setup. OpenWRT has a special wifi setup for that