My ISP recently 'upgraded' our installation replacing the modem/router combo we used to have with a modem and four Eero 7 nodes. The performance is pretty good, but there is no local web app for configuring the wifi, and each node appears to belong to a different network. The result is that none of my devices can reliably talk to one another.
Anyway, I'm considering replacing the Eeros with a few OpenWRT One devices in a mesh network configuration. Does anyone have any experience with that? I'm wondering if the OpenWRT One is comparable performance-wise to the Eero 7.
That doesn’t sound right. The eero app should show all nodes on the main page.
4 nodes is really overkill unless you have a mansion.
The OpenWRT One is pretty expensive for what you get and better/cheaper options exist. Comparing a wifi 7 device to really max wifi 6 device you can get with OpenWRT is hard to do and the metrics need to be quantified. Speeds? Reliability?
And that is by design, it is priced such that there is some contribution to OpenWrt from the proceeds and it is a relative low volume design that still requires its own PCB. I am a happy owner of an OpenWrt one that does duty as AP to my full satisfaction, but it is not cheap nor wifi7 (with only 2 802.11.ax capable devices at home that does not really affect me much).
I don't know what to tell you. My devices live on four different subnets depending on which Eero node they wind up connecting to. As a result, devices can only connect to one another if they happen to be connected to the same Eero node.
As far as metrics are concerned, could I expect a number of OpenWrt Ones configured in a mesh to stream video from Netflix and YouTube, as well as my own media server, all while having all my devices on a single subnet so they can interconnect?
You don't sound like a developer, so no. Four units is insane unless you live in a concrete McMansion. Go buy a 3-pack Asus BT8; three of them is likely overkill.
Configuring openwrt mesh et al is not as easy as using an app. Can you actually handle that? I would serious spend the small amount of money to run ethernet to each unit.
I'm not really interested in being sold on some other closed-source nonsense. Either the OpenWRT One is capable of solving my problem, or it isn't. And that, ultimately, is my question.
As hard as it may be for you to believe, there are people who aren't frightened of ssh and tftp.
