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This is not quite what you ask for and a little more expensive that some options, but I use a PC Engines APU2 running Alpine as my router+wifi access. Great little machine that is much more functional than typical home router hardware, and it boots using coreboot. A good option if you like setting up everything by hand.

More about APU2 at http://www.pcengines.ch/apu2b4.htm




Thanks for the option - are you using an Wi-Fi card on PCI, or you have access point connected by the LAN ports?

If it is the first option - there are two recommended Wi-Fi cards - which one you are using and how many client devices does it manage?


It has WLE200NX a/b/g/n PCIe with antennas (all from PC Engines), plus an Alfa g/n 2000mW adaptor at the end of a long USB cable, positioned for better reception in another building ~150 feet away (n devices are mostly fine without it but especially old b/g devices had a hard time). Before that, wifi had been managed by an RT-N66U, and a repeater had been required to reach the other building. For my setup the APU2 actually replaced 3 devices which had previously been required: Erlite-3 router, RT-N66U, plus repeater. And more to the point, replaced 3 key network infrastructure devices, all running different commercial/closed software, with a single device running a security focused Linux distro and open source boot firmware.

As to load, it manages just a household's worth of machines, maybe ~10 wireless clients and ~10 more devices on the LAN side. The load on the machine is effectively zero. I would personally be confident building such a setup for even 100 clients. The 2 PCI + 2 USB3 offers many expansion options and the SoC itself is tens of times faster than most home routers.




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