I haven't found any of the typical home grade routers that are reliable and give me the configurability I want. The wrt54gl + tomato was my favourite, but the RT-16N I replaced it with would overheat and die. I have since switched to mikrotik routers + unifi access points. A bit of a learning curve, but a huge step up from the typical home router in terms of configurability, stability and reliability. For your situation, that might be overkill. However, if you are not sold on having a dd-wrt like OS, you may want to take a look at the mikrotik routers with access point built in. There are two that might fit the bill for you and be quite cost-effective: the hap lite and hap ac lite. You should be able pick them up locally in Ottawa for under $50, with the non-ac version being a lot cheaper. https://mikrotik.com/product/RB941-2nD https://mikrotik.com/product/RB951Ui-2nD On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 at 18:09, Peter Sjöberg <peters-oclug [ at ] techwiz [ dot ] ca> wrote: > On 2019-03-03 4:39 p.m., James Lockie wrote: > > How far away? > No need for QoS > Distance - 2h west so not going there to often > > Setup: 8 cottages maybe 100m between each cottage. > Inside each cottage is a wireless router in a central point and each > cottage is at most 20x20m so no need for multiple routers in a single > cottage. > The WAN side is connected (over fiber so no ground current issues) to a > switch port and there it uses a statically configured 172.16.a.b IP. > The other side is like your normal home intra lan, 192.168.x.y. > Usage is by people who doesn't know that a usb charger that came with > their 512G apple XS Max can also be used to charge their kidz 64G apple > XS phone (or that playing online games on the apple ipad requires > internet connection). They want to come and everything just works and > short of that at most enter some wifi password. > > I did a presentation about the network setup in February last year (did > send the slides then also but they are not on the website). > > /ps > > > > > > On March 3, 2019 4:13:01 PM Peter Sjöberg <peters-oclug [ at ] techwiz [ dot ] ca> > wrote: > > > >> Looking to get some good wireless routers and wondering what to lookout > >> for and what to look for. > >> They will be in cottages far away so reliability is high on the > >> requirement list. The current ones are like 10 years and they complain > >> about dropped signal all the time. > >> > >> Started looking around but it's just so many lists etc it's > >> overwhelming. I would expect the budget to be low and the other end is a > >> slow ADSL line so for example "ASUS Gaming Router Tri-band WiFi" for > >> $450 is way overkill and over budget. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> Techwiz, Peter Sjoberg GPG key (42DDDDDD) on keyserver & homepage > >> Key fingerprint = EB81 3135 1636 576A DA83 826B 2455 0E88 42DD DDDD > >> Homepage: http://www.techwiz.ca/~peters > >> Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/henahadu/ > >> Enigma: http://meinEnigma.com > > > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe send a blank message to > linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > > To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > > To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org > > > > >