Replacement Home Network with fast roaming

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hi all, I'm located in the UK and relatively new to OpenWRT. I currently have a home network configured in the following way:

ISP modem - Synology RT2600ac with synology mesh to 2 x MR2200ac. One of the MR2200ac is wired backhaul the other is wireless backhaul.

I would like to replace this entire setup with a Flint 2 and 2 x Beryl AXs (all three have already been flashed to 4.7.5-op24 firmware), using 802.11r.

As part of this new setup I also want to segregate networks into three: main network, IOT and guest.

Now, as almost a complete newbie I would appreciate some tips on the best way to go about this. I have read up on 802.11r implementation and that seems to be relatively easy to implement. However, there seems to be conflicting information on wired backhaul for the APs, and how to broadcast all three SSIDs on 802.11r. Can anyone please help?

many thanks

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How this relates to OpenWrt? 11R is not required for roaming

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Thanks for your reply, but I'm not sure I understand. I want to replicate 3 x SSIDs throughout the house. I thought that 802.11r is required to be configured to do that.

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try without setting it up, most devices don't need it.

roaming is a client side decision, after all.

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To add: Windows clients do not support 802.11r except when WPA Enterprise (the thing with the RADIUS server, certificates, and/or usernames and per-user passwords) is used.

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Actually this is a pretty decent setup.. it's my daily driver