I am at my second Omnia, now with WiFi 5 and 5G modem on the ground floor of our new home. The first floor has weak signal on either 2.4 or 5GHz and I am already close to the maximum transmit power (16 and 30 dBm respectively).
Since there is Ethernet cabling available, I think the simplest would be getting an AP with bridged Ethernet mode.
I like Ubiuity’s offering and quality, the U6 would be perfect, but their standalone setup mode will not support 802.11r/k/v.
Any other recommendations would be appreciated. Should I go with another OpenWrt-compatible device? Or get a dumb AP?
where is the first?
and i´d definitely use something openWRT, or get a used mox perhaps?
you could also think about upgrading the omnia to wifi6; this improved the coverage of my omnia so i could disable the wifi on my mox. but, as always, ymmv.
The first Omnia is serving as a VPN exit point for the second one. I was never satisfied with the Omnia’s WiFi reach, which is why I am looking to complement it with something else.
It seems that the U6+ is supported by OpenWrt, so I ordered it. I am curious if I can make a decent WiFi roaming set-up with it and the Omnia.
I use my Omnia with Wifi disabled and wired to a TP-Link Deco M5 three-node Mesh (with wired backhaul on all nodes). Mesh runs in bridged mode to use Omnia network services. It’s not quite what you’re looking for (nor is it really what I intended), but pretty much any Wifi mesh or AP hardware will do the job.
At some point I will replace the mesh with specific APs, but I’m moving house soon, so not much point over-planning my network at this point.
The only reason I use this mesh is that my wife’s employer gave them out to boost home wifi during Covid lockdown. It does enough of a job for now.
