I have an office that is getting weak signal from my current 10-year-old now unsupported router. It’s far from the router, only the 2.4 Ghz band reaches the office. Because of this, speeds in my office are about 10X slower than near the router. The router is located near 4 other client devices, so moving it isn’t a good option.
I am planning to add a wired AP in my office. I am running cat6a from my the router’s location up to my office.
Given the value of the Flint 2, I was thinking of just buying two of them and running one as an AP.
Per the title, is this possible with the Flint 2 ? Would I need to install Open-wrt? I have been reading about 802.11r / k / v and DAWN. Is there a guide to get these set up with the Flint 2?
Yup this is possible, but you need to perform some OpenWrt luci things for the AP.
What you want is called an 'dumbap', this is a setup which doesn't use a firewall, and also not dhcp server.
I used vanilla OpenWrt for this but you may be also be able to accomplish this with gl op24 firmware.
One very tidious issue I personally had, is you want the dumbap on wan, but not when you configurate it to have eth1 in br-lan, when configurating and migrating eth1 to br-lan you absolutely want to do this from a lan port, after it applies then you can use the wan port.
You want eth1 prefered in br-lan, if you also want to use both 2.5gb ports and have the bridge functionality for eventually future vlans from upstream.
You could remove lan5 from bridge br-lan to reserve the last port on the flint 2 as maintenance port
Here are some videos:
If you feel comfortable with uci commands, I compile my own custom firmwares for my home lab with configuration build in it's much more easier to manage and easier to build on top for me, this is not with the gl ui though.
Here is a link to my uci-defaults for the dumbap profile, which write the configs when reset would have been pressed, or firmware is flashed without keeping settings.
