I was just about to cough up for a Banana Pi R4, but I might wait for this now.
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I have a bpi-r4, it’s fantastic, totally recommended.
No idea about its wifi 7 though, I didn’t buy the addon board, and went with unifi u7’s instead.
Also, looking at the specs of the upcoming openwrt two devices, with only a single 10g port, it won’t work well if you’re getting 10gig service from your ISP, and have a 10g lan as well
Have you heard of our lord and saviour the used Thinkcentre tinys? (Like m710)
But the first OpenWrt-branded device has only two Ethernet ports, which is an odd choice for a router.
Well, technically it's the only choice for a router... We are getting so used to the router/switch combo we will forget what exactly is a router. Which is probably good, I guess.
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From the image, it doesn't seem like it has rack mounts, which is kind of an odd choice. There are lots of switches that have a similar form factor, but can be put in 10" or 19" racks depending on which rack ears you put on it
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With this kind of speed, we could invent Call of Duty games where the Zombies want slightly more than brains. Generative A.I. uses internet data for training so at first, the zombies will probably request Doja Kat in the racial chat rooms showing feet but human progress marches ever forward. Within a decade, Zombies might just want to get drunk and go to Popeyes.
Braaaaiiiinnns. And a 16 piece family deal, spicy, with a side of red beans, mashed potatoes, and extra biscuits.
I was recently looking for a decent WiFi 7 router to replace my aging Archer A6. Then, looked up the table of hardware at toh.openwrt.org and almost none of the WiFi 7 routers from mainstream brands was supported. Glad to see something first-party releasing soon. I'll definitely buy one when it releases.
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Can you do "roaming" / "fast-transition" solutions with the openwrt one and/or two? (What is called "mesh" by e.g. tplink)
Sure, 802.11k,r,v is supported and Dawn/usteer can handle steering.
Awesome. Thanks. What is dawn/usteer?
Edit: nvm, I see it mentioned in the openwrt docs. I'll check it out, thanks.
I'm in the process of setting up usteer myself but haven't quite finished. I think Dawn is easier but usteer seems more complete. Dawn doesn't require a central controller which usteer does, but the usteer central controller can run on an non AP install which makes for nice centralized information.
I just want standalone wifi7 aps with openwrt
That's not bad pricing wise. There's very very little prosumer gear that's multi gigabit and it's all much higher price, or it's just a PC with several NICs.
If and when we move to hyperfibre this is going to be pretty high up on the list.
Hyperfibre sounds like some weight-loss supplement.
With new HyperFibre I can shit through the eye of a needle at 20 paces!
Gulp that thing and you'll shit it right out!
Hyper fiber??? I don't even have regular fiber here and y'all are moving on to HYPER???
I have gigabit (0.7 up) and for 10€ plus (so a total of 40€/month. Just to annoy our American friends ☺️) I can get 10Gb symmetrical. The nerd/geek in me wants it but I just don't need it
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My best friend is still on 15Mb/s in central London 💀
I just moved to a new place with full fiber optic and it's the first place I lived in where that's a thing.
Lived in germany. Litterally 3 world country when it comes to internet. And i was not in some village but Berlin
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For some it's long overdue. Fiber is soon to be 20 years old at my house.
But honestly, I don't think most people need hyper fiber anyway, so that's probably why we havent seen it.
I would say most people do not need a home connection that is in the same order of magnitude as the average data center server connection in use at the same time. Mostly because by definition there won't be many servers to transfer data from and to at that speed and the average person doesn't run too many connections in parallel.
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