Your budget, location? DO you need WiFi 6/Ax or can do with WiFi 5/AC
I am in India and there seems to be very limited Wifi6 supported devices on OpenWRT. Their prices also seem to be very high to consider at this point - all above 150-200$ if I am not wrong.
Any alternative you would suggest?
This poster found a dlink, for reasonable price, I would expect.
RT3200
You can order it from amazon UAE
about 110 USD
Try flipkart, Amazon.
Best option is to visit your local hardware market, and search for used routers. Best in that class with great Openwrt support is Netgear 7800.
Another option could be xiamoi if you don't need USB.
If he can order from UAE, why not UK Amazon same device for as low as 39£
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Amazon won't ship?
Hi.
I own a MR8300. It works very correctly, but don't expect wonder if you have a Gbit/s WAN. Let's say that 500 Mbit/s is a maximum for plain use.
My only advice would be to run the linksys firmware, setup wifis, and wait for half an hour before installing OpenWrt. I had troubles with the radio0 wifi at first launch: it seems that the router needs time to calibrate DFS channels. After that it works like a charm.
You can use luci advanced reboot to change boot partition.
The device has 3 wifis
2.4 GHz 300 Mbit/s
5 GHz (channels 36 to 64) 867 Mbit/s
5 GHz (channels 100 to 165) 867 Mbit/s
They all can be used simultaneously (I bought this router precisely for this purpose)
That means that the maximum link for a device is 867 Mbit/s, not the 2200 advertised. These advertisements are foolish.
I don't think they will ship from UK /UAE to India. Or the shipping cost will be absurd.
Thank you. Do you think this is better compared to say a WRT3200ACM?
The WRT3200ACM is a high-end router, so it's better than the MR8300.
That being said, choose your device according to your need and budget.
The wrt3200 is powerful, but got semi broken 802.11n wifi.
£59 unfortunately
It is still a steal at £59. Just try any Amazon alert app. Kempa I think, it will email/text/whatsapp you when the price will fall.
Recently it was £39.
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We're not a general tech support forum. If your question does not concern OpenWrt you should take it elsewhere.
On a further note: the list of modem/router combos supported by Openwrt is very short.
I’ve not said I want a router without OpenWRT support. So my question stands..
If it's a DOCSIS modem/router combo you need, you're out of luck, there's no support for such devices.
Some ISPs allow you to bridge the modem, and put a proper router behind it (could do it even if it's not bridgeable, but then you'd be double NATing).
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That's what this boils down to, if you ask me:
Like I said: slim pickings if you want an AIO with OpenWrt. You'll compromise on multiple fronts.
On top of that, you're hijacking someone else's thread.
I agree. This has nothing to do with what I asked.
You should ask the question in a separate thread.