DIY Mesh.....help

[BigFam]

I am looking to upgrade our Wi-Fi and take back control. We had an older TP-Link system, upgraded network to 8gb/8gb, and I HATE the ISP provided hardware.

 

I am looking to take an old Ryzen 5 5600G, stick it on an mITX mobo with 16gb RAM and an intel X710-T2L NIC and run OpenWRT as the router.

 

Now I need to figure out the Mesh Wi-Fi 7 side to cover the house. we easily have 60+ devices on wifi. I want to have 3 access points. 1 downstairs with the router (wired home unit) and then I would like to have 2 more upstairs on opposite ends of the house. I have been digging through youtube and the internet all day and cannot find a mesh solution that doesn't require me to crawl around in the crawl space and run ethernet cords through where the coax used to be in order to hard wire everything. and suggestions would be GREAT!

 

 

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[OhioYJ]

I haven't been real impressed by the mesh systems I've seen so far. A few weeks ago I just got done running new cables in my in-laws attic for their eero mesh system. It worked wirelessly, but they were losing a ton of speed between the mesh points.

 

The point being is if you can run the cables, it really would be beneficial. I ran network cabling in my house quite some time ago, however I think the best thing I did was add cabling and boxes in the ceiling for access points. It's made swapping out and upgrading my Wifi very easy. I've swapped / upgraded my APs 3 times since then and it's been super easy, pull them down, and plug in new ones.