[ale] Looks like time for a new wireless router

[Chuck Payne]

Leam,

I have three Banana-Pi routes, they all run OpenWTR or ImmortalWTR.  Take a
look at their latest because what cool about it you can replace the wifi
board.  Which means that you can upgrade the wifi to Wifi 8 if and when it
comes out. I am current doing Wifi6, the wifi board I have comes with
Tri-Band radio on it.

https://docs.banana-pi.org/en/BPI-R4/BananaPi_BPI-R4

It has four stand 1GB ports or you can use SPF connectors and do either
2.5Ghz which I am doing at this time or up to 10 GB.



On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 2:25 PM dj-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Fwiw https://www.asus.com/event/network/eol-product/
>
>
> On December 28, 2024 11:28:23 AM EST, Tom & JaVonn via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Leam:
>>
>> I'd like to throw out two recommended features that our 6 year old ASUS
>> RT-N66W offers.  The ability to schedule the WiFi (ours is set to go off at
>> 11 pm and on at 7 am) plus the ability to set output power level (we keep
>> it at level 3 of 4 as it's only used for cellphones -- our 3 workstations
>> are all wired).
>>
>> When we leave town, we turn off the scheduler and raise the power level
>> to high, for the use of a couple of WiFi security cameras.
>>
>> My engineering background and boatloads of studies lead me to minimize
>> exposure to radio waves.  Since we learned that 5G had come to our
>> neighborhood last year, we sleep inside of a shielding canopy.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> On Fri, 2024-12-27 at 20:46 -0600, Leam Hall via Ale wrote:
>>
>> Currently using a 3 year old ASUS RT-ACRH18 with two wired and 4-6
>> wireless clients, usually low load. It was having issues delivering a
>> video, and the log showed a bunch of dropped connections from all over the
>> IPv4 range.
>>
>> When I remotely rebooted, its IP pinged but the routing and web interface
>> didn't come back up. Tried a short power off, same issue. A little longer
>> power off worked, at least for the moment. Did a firmware update once it
>> came back up fully. After I send this I'm going to shut it off for the
>> night and see if it helps clear things out.
>>
>> However, having a backup is always a good idea. Recommendations? House
>> isn't too big, wood and whiteboard internal walls. Main issue is that my
>> wife's Mac is old and sometimes doesn't keep a good connection. Cost is a
>> consideration, still haven't found a job yet.
>>
>> Recommendations?
>>
>> Leam
>>
>>
>>
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