First, with respect to OpenWRT's past achievements; OpenWRT is now
developmentally dead. Nearly all of it's contributing developers forked
a new "LEDE Project" 6-8 months ago. I would advise you to go over to
the LEDE Project forum or dev mailing list.
As someone else mentioned; if you want to go commercial, Ubiquiti is
pretty awesome for small businesses. Aruba is good but probably too
expensive (you should check). Avoid anything Cisco (Expensive AND crap
AND poor support).
If you are running a small business and just want a handfull of WAPs
with enterprise-like capability, and you have the technical capability
to do it, I would advise you to just build your own from LEDE source and
go with an ipq806x-based system.
I know you mentioned that you previously failed at building from source,
but it's really not that hard and you could get help from the community
if you just asked. You could probably even hire someone for beer money
to do some hands-on training over the internet via a tmux session or
something.
The ipq806x series is a QCA(Qualcomm Atherose) SoC and then it's almost
always paired with some qca9980 wilress chips. Support for these devices
is looking really good and my personal experience using them has been
very positive. The top common issue with these devices right now is that
the wireless LEDs don't work yet.
Models include:
Netgear R7500 v2 (avoid the v1)
Netgear R7800
TP-Link Archer C2600 (WARNING: No console, TP-Link is no longer
hacker-friendly)
TRENDnet TEW-827DRU (I am the dev for this device)
Linksys EA8500
Zytel NBG6816 (Looks awesome but code isn't quite ready yet, check back
in 2 months)
In summary, if you have the time to build your own, choose one of the
models I mentioned above. If not, go with Ubiquiti.
On 11/13/2016 08:23 AM, Marc Haber wrote:
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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