I’ve been using my carrier’s router for a while now but I’ve been having some issues. Though speed tests show nice speed, the consistency of the signal is very bad. I work from home in an office with my SO and when we’re both using the internet the signal can become really bad. Currently getting 20% signal strength and having a hard time keeping my teams call up.

The router is not that far, like 10-15m away but does go through a wall. Ethernet cables are unfortunately not a possibility and since we both have desktop computers we’d rather not move.

Looking for a router around 100 euros, preferably available on Amazon Spain so I can return it if it doesn’t solve my problem. The goal is to shut down the carrier router’s wi-fi and just use the new router for all the networking.

I don’t having any special requisites. Wi-fi 6E would be a nice to have but honestly wi-fi 6 is good enough. Solid connection is the most important thing for me.

Thanks!

    • pathief@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      3 days ago

      The office room is 16.55 square meters, the entire house is around 100 square meters.

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        3 days ago

        In that case a single AP is probably enough.

        Here is a list of WiFi 6 devices supported by OpenWRT.

        https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_16128_ax-wifi

        My guess is your current device is simply a older cheap device. If a single devices doesn’t work for you the other option is to setup multiple APs. The good news is that OpenWRT has out of the box support for 802.11r fast transition. For multiple APs you just need either to run Ethernet or to setup a mesh backbone for the network.