Henning Paul DC4HPMy newest hobby: Reviving end-of-life wireless routers for use with current OpenWRT by replacing their flash chips with 16MB ones.
Marcus Müller@hennichodernich honest question: how desirable is a 500 MHz MIPS with 64 MB RAM for mesh routing?
@funkylab It works better as a repeater than a relayd STA bridge, that's all that counts.
Means, there are only 2 nodes in the mesh and there's no roaming, as all clients are connected to the MAP via wired Ethernet.
Means, there are only 2 nodes in the mesh and there's no roaming, as all clients are connected to the MAP via wired Ethernet.
@funkylab And 24€ is a competitive price:
https://www.amazon.de/TP-Link-TL-WR902AC-433Mbit-Accesspoint-Repeater/dp/B01MY5JIJ0
(The AliExpress repeaters aren't much cheaper and require upgrading their flash as well.)
https://www.amazon.de/TP-Link-TL-WR902AC-433Mbit-Accesspoint-Repeater/dp/B01MY5JIJ0
(The AliExpress repeaters aren't much cheaper and require upgrading their flash as well.)
@hennichodernich that's true, though I used to use this one with openwrt running relayd to get network to desktop PC and ethernet printer: https://preisvergleich.heise.de/strong-dual-band-gigabit-router-1200-a1645287.html
price (35€) hasn't changed much, and I gave away mine to someone that could make more use of it.
price (35€) hasn't changed much, and I gave away mine to someone that could make more use of it.
