DIY Mesh

babhishek

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well, i would recommend the orbi from netgear for a plug n play mesh. else i would go with mikrotik which is easier to setup.
open wrt for a dlink is going to be hardware painful imo. whats your budget? in the example you have given, 3x3 wifi ac is a given, min 2x2 reqd.
not really worth the hassle on dlink, imho.
 

vivek.krishnan

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I already have a mesh in place with Deco M5 and will be extending it later.

This is purely a project just for learning and etc. Not planning to use at all in my house. Might donate or sell the stuff off once done.
 

ReVo_007

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I am also on the same boat, I have a NetGear R7000, TP Link C60(will change soon). And a Technicolor gateway. Let me know what you follow
 

vivek.krishnan

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No reply yet from @anilk47, will be waiting for a couple of days max and pickup 3 routers for testing then. For ease of simplicity will look at identical models first

@superczar - just FYI as well.
 

superczar

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Two issues.. One, I doubt that 802.11r will work effectively by just enabling r,k,v flags on independent APs as that article claims..

Both Orbi (that I had earlier) and omada (now) rely on additional computational logic to effectively push and move clients around..
(E.g. on omada, when the central controller OS
goes offline for any reason, the roaming performance deteriorates drastically)

Two, I'm not sure if there are any cost benefits to be gained.
This cannot be compared to tri band dedicated backhaul solutions like velop or Orbi
And dual band solutions like deco are very likely cheaper as a combo deal than buying independent APs
 

ReVo_007

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Well I am in the boat now, I have fitted wired backbone to all my rooms and am using the different routers as dumb access points. mesh was something I was looking at but then again the track record of the manufacturers supporting and updating the firmware is not exactly great. Orbi comes with wired backbone ? For me spending around 3k to get the wired backbone was cheaper than the wireless repeater(read unreliable) solution.