Openwrt one - what to expect?

Hardware Questions and Recommendations
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Could someone on here who already has an OpenWRT One provide some info?

  1. What kind of range/coverage can you expect from this device without apparently any external antenna's? Will it be more like converting a raspberry pi to an AP (meaning: poor range/coverage), or closer to e.g. a TP-Link or a Ubiqiuiti with regard to range/coverage?
  2. What are the wifi features on this device? Could someone share the output of "iw list" on this device? Am curious how many SSID's, mesh, ... it supports.
  3. If I would consider this device as a replacement for a ubiquiti ap ac lr, running openwrt, would I be worse off, better off, kind of the same?

Thanks!

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What are you talking about?

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OK, I stand corrected. I was already thinking: wireless device, metal enclosure, no external antenna, huh...
Completely missed this, isn't shown on the openwrt website (https://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/one) or this link where they refer to: https://docs.banana-pi.org/en/OpenWRT-One/BananaPi_OpenWRT-One

I wonder how this then would compare to a classic AP like TP-Link, Zyxel, Ubiquiti with regard to range & coverage.