OpenWrt AX Access Point, OpenWrt full support

Hardware Questions and Recommendations
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Dear all,

I would like to upgrade my OpenWRT routers and I need advise:

My needs (from most important to less important):

  • Full OpenWRT support (not limited to a closed version).
  • WIFI 6 AX support.
  • Mesh support.
  • SFP+ port or Ethernet 2.5 for LAN. I can make a LACP bonding to have several 1Gbit but it is not as fast a full speed port.

What do you recommend? I understand this kind of product might not exist because OpenWRT support for AX standard is very limited.

Thank you for your help,

I read this thread but it is quite old:

Kind regards,
FF

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The table's up to date, and show currently supported devices.

If you want 2.5gbit, get an usb3 2.5 Gbit ethernet adapter, and hope it's supported.

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Thanks. I have a fully supported 5gbit USB3 adapter.
It is quite complicated ...

I have problems finding those product, except on AliExpress.
Where can I buy them in a European shop?
I could not find them on Amazon.

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Even if that page (which only defines how the data is displayed) would have been last modified back in 2015, it would still show you current data as per today.

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No idea, I usually buy them from US Amazon, they sometimes go on sale for as low as $10.

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The options would broaden quite a bit with ipq807x, but that's still quite a bit away from being in a mergeable state (let aside the actual (current-) device coverage).

That said, https://openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/unifi6lite seems to have gained 2.5GBASE-T support just yesterday.

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