looking at a openwrt router build

[russtysandwiches]

Budget (including currency): n/a

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: openwrt wifi routing and as a hub for a wifi star network topology. Id like a wifi router that can scale with me currently i only have 40mbs adsl internet but i will be upgrading soon to fibre. id also like it to have 2 sfp+ ports (one for wan one for lan) 1 rj45 (for my current speeds) and some mpcie for wifi cards. I'm ok having used parts.

 

so I've found a few things here paired with this, an m.2 boot drive, some ram and 2 mpcie wifi modules with full bandwidth g/n/ac/ax. I'm wondering if this will work or if anyone has experience with this. after a lot of googling it seems not many people know this exists and with this being rather expensive I just want to make sure it will play nice. Thanks for any help

 

 

 

[BahnStormer]

It sounds like you're home-building a wrecking ball to crack a walnut!

 

I've been out of this game for a few years, but I used to run OpenWRT on an old Linksys/Cisco WRT160N router and that ran up to ADSL just fine - I'm sure you could get 99% of the functionality you're after for a fraction of the price... that was fine up to ~80Mbps on the WAN side (with the firewall running) - I only got rid of it as Virgin upgraded to 200Mbps in my area and the WAN side was only 100Mbps port.

 

I'm sure you'd be able to get a 801.11ax AP and just add it to a modded Linksys router.

 

That was all a few years ago though, so things have probably moved on: there must be some more focussed forums dedicated to OpenWRT advice...