Hey yall During the openwrt talk may folks spoke about what hardware they used and ofcourse Ted's great talk itself was about graphing data from the individual APs. I had a few thoughts about this that I want to share, if you will indulge me:
1) hardware: Folks mentioned only paying $15 for their AP/home routers and others were incredulous at this point. I wanted to show my method of finding such deals: a) First start at the table of hardware [0] to find a currently supported enterprise grade hardware that requires some sort of proprietary system for command and control, where most offices want to get rid of the hardware once they stop paying annual fees. b) Go through ebay or local craigslist/facebook marketplace/offerup/nextdoor etc. to find said cheap hardware example: Extreme Networks WS-AP3825i [1] is a great piece of hardware hobbled by a pos 'in the cloud' controller. If one searches through ebay for said hardware, it can be found for ~$20 [2] 2) Most of the openwrt AP remote control systems are bash/perl scripts put together by oldschool sysadmins. I highly recommend going with a prepackaged application. Right now the only game in town for openwrt remote control is OpenWisp [3]. It has very similar power features [4] as other proprietary controllers. Read the docs [5] for more info, or play around with the demo [6]. Obviously this is for remote controlling APs rather than standalone routers. Let me know if yall have any questions - Eldo [0] https://openwrt.org/toh/start [1] https://openwrt.org/toh/extreme_networks/ws-ap3825i [2] https://www.ebay.com/itm/134770274307 or https://www.ebay.com/itm/304819890679?epid=1426811999 [3] https://openwisp.org/ [4] https://openwisp.org/whatis.html [5] https://openwisp.io/docs/index.html [6] https://openwisp.org/demo.html
