CassandrichLazyweb, what's a decent wifi ap/router in the $50-100 price range that works painlessly with OpenWRT? Good antennas, decent speeds, and low power draw (long life on battery backup) are my main criteria. TP-Link would be my normal go-to vendor and I saw some praise for the Archer C7 which I could get for around $60 but I wasn't clear from the OpenWRT wiki if it's reliable.
In the past I've just run my own hostapd with a USB wifi adapter, but its performance is below uplink speed now, so I need to either get a much better USB wifi adapter or just switch to dedicated router.
Ben Zanin@gnomon No. I wasn't aware of it, but looking at it now, the input power requirement does not make it look very attractive (15V/2A).