Hey Y’all!
After an unsuccessful attempt at getting openwrt installed on my wrt1900acs, I started doing some research about the box. Needless to say, I am disappointed in what I have discovered regarding the radios in said box. Would it be possible to open the case and install different radios? Other than using another router alongside the 1900 for Wi-Fi, is there such a thing as a box that is nothing but Wi-Fi? If I were to use another router just for Wi-Fi, is there one that is the opposite of the 1900 that has excellent radios but would benefit from the 1900’s processing power?
- you cannot replace radios in that device.
- there was a recent mwlwifi push that improved things apparently, Try a snapshot image (23.05 or master) to test.
- turn radios off and hang an AP off of it.
- lots of small devices with no onboard radios, x86, ...
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Would there be any advantage to using another router as an ap, one that can have openwrt installed, as opposed to an ap? I suppose an ap would be the wifi only box that I mentioned in my original post wouldn't it 
As an example, on a rango I have the radios turned off, for one AP I use one of these. I am running OEM, but OpenWrt is also supported.
But sure, if you have an all-in-one consumer router, you can just use that as an AP; I do this for a second AP and it is running OpenWrt.