Hi,

I am looking for a currently available device that I can use with
OpenWRT as an Access Point with WPA Enterprise. After failing with a
commercial implementation (a DrayTek AP 900 which does only do the
minimum necessary to claim WPA Enterprise compatiblity), and with
DD-WRT not having released for eight years, I'd like to try OpenWRT.

I would like to hear your recommendation for suitable hardware. I
would like to have:

- 802.11n in the 2.4 GHz band, 802.11ac in the 5 GHz band (or better),
  simultaneously
- Sufficient and good antennas so that the WLAN range is acceptable
  even in a difficult building with lots of drywall
- 802.1q support on the Ethernet
- Multi-SSID-Support
- Support für WPA2 Enterprise with an external RADIUS server
- Support for RADIUS Attributes allowing the RADIUS server to specify
  which VLAN a certain client should be mapped into after connecting to
  the same SSID.
- Support for RADIUS Attributes telling the Accesspoint to disconnect
  a user after a pre-defined amount of time.

When I tried to build my own OpenWRT for the last time, I failed
miserably. Therefore, I would like to be able to use a pre-built
OpenWRT image on the device. I believe this might influence the device
selection since the image is probably going to be fairly large,
influencing the need of flash size.

A commercially available accesspoint with this feature set is going to
be beyond 200 Euros, so I do have a bit of budget available to buy the
hardware to run OpenWRT on, and I am talking about buying two or three
of those. I do not need to go for an el cheapo accesspoint in the 30
Euro range like Freifunk needs to, so I'm open for hardware suggestions.

The hardware compatibility matrix is a help here, but I'd like to have
a selection of two or three possible candidates to start with. Can
anybody help?

Thanks in advance.

Greetings
Marc

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