Hey there,
I'm using OpenWrt for about three years now and am really happy with it. In May I deceided to get a upgrade, because my current setup with two Netgears (WAX 206 and WAX 220) felt a little bit slow and limited in hardware.
So I deceided to buy two BPi-R4, each with a BE14 card, something I would as of now not do again 
I digged into the posts I could find about the tx power issues, shielding and the power amplifier. From what I learned now, after compiling a lot of custom OpenWrt Snapshots with public and self made patches, it just does not work really well.
One of the main points of getting the BPi-R4 was the WIFI 7 MLO capability,, I wanted to get my office to the 1 GBit/s connection that I have. Currently I use only the two devices mentioned above using 802.11s and only get something about 200 MBit/s.
I'm at a point where I don't want to use the BPi-R4 as Access Point anymore, expecially after reading the pinned post So you have 500Mbps-1Gbps fiber and need a router READ THIS FIRST.
So I thougth about a new setup and wanted to get it challanged and optimized with you:
| Purpose | Device | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Router | BPi-R4 | I just rip of the BE14 card and antennas, so it should not get so hot anymore, it still has good CPU performance |
| 3x AP | Zyxel NWA50AX Pro | Ideally I would want to pick a TP-Link EAP660HD but I need three of them to cover my apartment $$$ |
| 2x Switch | TP-Link TL-SG108PE | It has Gigabit and PoE, so I can use it to power the APs |
802.11s 802.11s
ISP -> BPi-R4 -> Switch -> AP1 - - - - - -> AP2 - - - - - -> AP3 -> Switch
I hope that until the end of this year I can upgrade my wireless connection to a wired one, but for that I need the permission of my landlord and this point is still pending (I don't want a cable laying around)
What are your thoughts on this setup, is there better (affordable) hardware I didn't mind?
