RE200 like Wi-Fi repeater recommendations?

[Lynx]

The small form-factor and fairly attractive plug-in TP-LINK RE200 is supposedly supported by 21.02.0, but when I tested it the 5Ghz radio seemed very unstable.

Can anyone please provide a recommendation for wireless repeaters for wi-fi (WDS or mesh) ideally in the small plug-in form factor?

I use an RT3200 as primary router - another option would be to purchase another RT3200.

[frollic]

pretty much anything with (ideally) two radios can be used as a repeater, attach one radio to the source, use 2nd radio to (re)transmit.

But if you want something in the same format, check out the rest of TP-Links RE-series.

[Lynx]

It's not that easy. Take the TP-LINK RE200. It seems like a great candidate for OpenWrt. OpenWrt states that it is supported in 21.02.0. Yet if you read through:

Port to TP-Link RE200

The question @calebfn asked was answered in this thread several times - read through it, for example Port to TP-Link RE200 - #35 by LaercioCordeiro. That said: mktplinkfw is part of the OpenWrt ImageBuilder and part of the OpenWrt SDK. You then need a hex editor to fix the checksum in your image. The reason for why no GUI tool is available (well, it is, but in source code only) is that several people have completely bricked their devices and, due to the fact that there is no recovery mode pres…

You see many complaints about 5Ghz Wi-Fi being unstable. I tried it and it was a disaster.

What I need is at least one confirmation of at least one RE200 form factor device working well in OpenWrt. Preferable more than one though.

[tmomas]

@Lynx

ideally in the small plug-in form factor?

Take a look at https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_mains-powered, you should find some devices with similar form factors there.

[Lynx]

Thank you.

Any thoughts on the Netgear EX6120:

Techdata: NETGEAR EX6120

Would performance be better hooking up 2x RT3200 802.11ax instead?