I'm on the lookout for new hardware folks. I read the pinned post and I guess my best option is to buy a switch and a separate AP for wifi.
Basically I want to get into the homelab will be building a nas soon, and want to have it on a 5G or 10G connection to my PC (why that much, I dunno, yolo I guess). So I guess that would mean I get a 10G switch that is supported by OpenWrt, and get a separate AP for wifi. So a "firewall" router from protectli that sits b/w internet and lan, Dynalink WRX36 as a dumb wifi AP, and at a later point a 10G switch to interconnect lan devices.
Or I feel like I should just get the qhora-301w and call it a day?
Does that sound good? If not, please share your thoughts and advice. Is this a good place to ask for such advice? Sorry if not, do tell me where I can.
Some support for RTL93XX switches seems to already be in Openwrt git master, and will see significant improvement once Openwrt moves to kernel 6.1 on that platform, it would seem: https://svanheule.net/switches/current_status
I was actually eyeing the BPi4! But I can't seem to buy them anywhere, and this weird wifi addin card is nowhere to be found. Apparently it's still in development. Maybe it'll be a while before they ramp up production and actually start selling it
I could get the BPi3, but ... those 1Gbps ports (kidding lol). It's pretty neat, but I want moar ... within a reasonable price
people are still reporting occasional wifi driver crashes, requiring reboots.
I, on the other hand, have two, as APs, with an uptime of almost a year.
they never reached it though, due to a power outage
A "fast LAN" does not necessarily require a fast router, only a fast switch - only a fast wan does. And wan speeds exceeding 1 GBit/s still scream x86_64, as it can just do it, no questions asked and no dodgy hardware offloading required.
Keep in mind that above 2.5GBASE-T still gets almost exponentially more expensive, so if you don't need it today or within the next 18 months, it might be more sensible to defer the question and to get away with a cheaper device(s) for the time being.
The drivers link for that model seems to have been hijacked to some other domain. It redirects me to suggestive dot com/halloween-costume-ideas-pets. I wouldn't trust my network with them, sorry.
Yeah I doubt I will have fast wan, if ever, so the protectli sitting b/w my lan and internet seems like a good bet. I'll just bridge it to the shitty ISP modem. But for the price of the protectli, I seem to be able to just buy a really powerful server off ebay. They do consume more power and are noisy, but they do seem interesting ngl.
For LAN, yes I was planning to get a 10G switch later. For wifi, the one suggested by frollic is on my to-buy list.
Yea, but I think I still have to trust them with bios and firmware updates? Well maybe firmware can be served from lvfs but I believe that's opt-in by the vendor.
I dunno, that manufacturer Qotom doesn't sit well with me. Perhaps irrational, and maybe I'll get over it. But for now I will be looking at other pieces of tech
Netgear one is based on Mediatek which is fully open source, while Dynalink one the open source solution has no hardware acceleration (NSS is not open), also WAX220 is targeted as business AP, signal coverage is doing better I believe.
(kidding lol). It's pretty neat, but I want moar ... within a reasonable price 
