Originally Posted by
Dodge DeBoulet
I have a large property that could well be described as a "compound," with multiple dwellings and outbuildings. They're bridged using MoCA 2 adapters over an existing cable infrastructure; this has provided rock-solid service since we moved here 3 years ago. The WNDR3700 and 4500 are running dd-wrt. Until very recently, buggy ath10k drivers for the R9000 prevented me from taking advantage of dd-wrt on that device. Fortunately, Netgear has, as of late, been fairly responsive in addressing CVEs. I do plan to move to dd-wrt once the latest betas prove their stability. The EA8500 (which was gifted to me by Linksys as part of a promotion) serves as the guest network for the main house. It's currently running the latest Linksys release, but since it's behind the firewall and rarely used, switching to dd-wrt hasn't been a priority. All are configured with careful consideration of channel selection, and bandwidth/latency across all routers is excellent.
That's good to know. Maybe they've turned a corner. I used to be a big netgear fan, but they lost me 5-10 years ago. Maybe notsomuch that they lost me, just that Ubiquiti came along at a not much higher price point. A few years ago I tried to dd-wrt a Costco version of the R7000 (I think it was like the R7100), and it failed miserably. Ended up putting the default firmware on and returning it. That was the last retailish router I've used for the home network. For some of the seminars I put on I use dd-wrt on an old ASUS RT-68U (I think that's the model) and it works fantastic (for just a local network to collaborate and get files from a server) and that device is about a decade old. I've burned one of those up (before I used dd-wrt) but I have two others that have been pretty good.
One of these days I'll have a "compound".
One of the nice things about having APs aware of each other is that they can automatically manage their channels and also make sure not to step on each other.