On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 11:10:53PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
There's a new standard since then: 802.11ac. Confusing, because there already were 802.11a and 802.11c.
And there is 802.11ax as well. The naming is only confusing if you don't know the insane naming system used by IEEE. Use a-z then start over at aa going to az, then ba up to bz, etc. There is an 802.11ax AP on the ceiling above me at the moment (although I don't think ax mode works on it quite yet). Of course for consumer use they have now named 802.11n as Wifi 4, 802.11ac as Wifi 5 and 802.11ax as Wifi 6.
I like the idea of OpenWRT but don't actually use it. Even though I have two wireless routers, I only use them as APs -- the routing functions are not used. So my advice about consumer wireless routers is pretty theoretical. For gateways (including the routing function), I use little PCs running CentOS or Fedora.
I have OpenWRT on my WRT1900ACv2. Used to run LEDE until they re-merged. Seems to work quite well. I know there is a WRT32X now that is similar but I haven't used one. -- Len Sorensen