DAWN

I was just reviewing the TP-Link EAP225 which supports OpenWRT. And DAWN [0] can be used with OpenWRT for handling band steering. Does anyone have experience using it? Can you recommend it? [0] https://github.com/berlin-open-wireless-lab/DAWN

It's not out-of-the-box perfect, but I've had decent luck using DAWN, which targets openwrt, to get decent bandsteering. I can always ssh in (I personally havent been interested in installing/trying the "luci" web interface) & move someone between bands if I need to. My understanding is it's typically thr network nit clients that is supposed to be in charge of bandsteering & that devices hanging on to what they lock on to is the norm, typical. Also, this setup works across & steers clients between my multiple access points! It's amazing being able to ssh in and see a map of what signals each AP sees. DAWN periodically asks clients to help map, so even if the AP's are on different bands, you can still compare what the signal would be if the node moved. We'ee finally living in a pretty good time for open source wifi. A pity how only a coupl

I'm a long term openwrt user, finally even set up DAWN[1] to orchestrate multiple APs (sometimes a win, sometimes worse than manually picking among each AP & each band (2.4/5) having it's own specific ssid/name). I really hate to say it, but even for the geeks, I'd generally recommend some kind of mesh product. A roommate installed a parallel Google mesh product & it worked so well, had such great coverage. Google spent hella time making this product good, thanks in part to Google Fiber. There's a great talk on their finding from Avery Penarunn back at the first netdevconf[2]. I'm sure many of the competing products are also very very capable. They have a level of reliable, just works intelligence, even over wifi mesh, that makes me envious. There's sadly little new news in the OpenWRT space. There's some on-the-cusp work with some new Qu