Just want to say thank you to the OpenWrt team for this firmware!
Have been having some seriously annoying issues for this last year and so far since using OpenWrt all is well!
We originally moved into this place just over a year ago with a TP-Link W8970 router which I'd been using for years with zero issues. But for some reason about two weeks after setting the router up in our new house we started suffering constant issues with wifi where devices would drop even though the SSID was still visible but would be unable to re-connect. Sometimes could reconnect but internet would not be available. Which meant constant router restarts to fix.
Eventually got super annoyed so figured it was the router, bought a TP-Link AC1200 router which was fine for a few weeks then exactly the same issues came back.
No matter how many restarts and configurations and firmware upgrades I tried nothing helped.
With both of these routers LAN devices still remained functional, issues were purely WiFi related.
Cue to about a couple of months back when the persistent WiFi issues increased and I decided to buy yet ANOTHER route, a TP-Link Archer C7.
Just like all the other routers, all was perfectly fine again for a short time and BAM. Yep. WiFi kept dropping out on all devices again even though LAN was working fine.
Shortly after this started happening again the router would also just randomly start freezing with the WAN light orange signifying a dropped WAN connection...
Weird, I thought. Factory reset a few times and tried different firmware but still same issue.
FFS I thought to myself... WHHHYYY.
So I returned the router for a replacement and exactly the same damn thing.
So after trawling the web for ages I eventually came across this OpenWrt project.
One month in now and everything is still working perfectly!
So I have a couple of questions... Is TP Link firmware really janky? I've always used TP Link stuff and up until moving into this place I've never had zero issues?
Just is strange that the same issues persisted over four routers yet this OpenWrt firmware seems to be working great?
Or could there be some sort of WiFi interference going on? But if that is the case why does OpenWrt work fine?
I've tried everything from re-positioning the routers, changing channels, using a scanner app on my phone to select the optimal channels (There is only usually three other neighbours routers in range and they are so far away I don't see how they could be an issue) or could it be a piece of equipment we are using?
But all the stuff we have we had in our last house and had zero issues for years and years?
Most of my stuff is set up on static IP's to reduce conflicts etc.
I have two Synology DS918's, we have two TV's, Hauwei Mediapad M10, Samsung tablet, two one plus phones, a samsung s8, MSI laptop and three LAN'd PC's.
Everything is static IP except for the phones and tablets.
I'm just at a loss to understand it all really...
But in any case, THANK YOU!