Hello,
So lightning destroyed my beloved APU2D4. So I have an HP T740 on the way but its limited space may not easily fit a solid DBDC card. So I am going to split the functions, let the router be a router and then have an AP.
Are there any good cheapish 820.11ax AP's? 2x2? The brunt of the work will be done by the T740 so it can be real basic.
Well I should plan better so lets say $200. 1Gbps uplink to the AP is fine because 80% of my high BW clients in the apartment are hardwired, not wifi. All it must do is be an AP. Would be a plus if in case of the router feeding it failing it could pickup the routing load too with minor config change. So with that in mind needs at least one LAN port too. So;
OpenWRT capable preferred
1 WAN port 1Gbps
1 LAN port 1Gbps
802.11ac minimum ax preferred.
I am currently running on my backup/travel router that is a Gl.inet 750 Slate. CPU QCA9563, @775MHz SoC RAM 128MB, 802.11ac. It gets the job done but works pretty hard LOL