Mesh wifi vs Access point

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So I have the main router in my hall and I want wifi access to be seamless there and my bedroom. Good wifi signal does not come there due to thick concentrate and cupboards.

I have a single Ethernet cable going to my bedroom from the main router. So I was thinking of going for openwrt fast roaming access point with a second router in my bedroom. And I can use the free lan ports on it to connect my PC.

But I have heard fast roaming depends on client I have an old Redmi note 5 pro idk if it supports fast roaming.

Or the other option is wired mesh wifi which I think is a little expensive for just a simple use case.

So which option should I go for guys?
 
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@rizexor the TP-Link is already at Wpa2 psk through the version settings. I also have a tp link as ap so I know that if you don't set auto in version
and select wpa2 then it works. . Change to wpa2 only on openwrt and then tell us if it works.
 
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Only these options. I am planning to buy a archer a7 v5 and install openwrt and replace the main router of TP-Link with it
 
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Uhhh... mixed mode has nothing to do with this, I don't think anything else could be anymore irrelevant and it works with mixed mode (I had it for a while for a wpa only device, and I have a TP-Link AP with their firmware, it works just fine).
 
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@wheatbread i agree with you but I now have an archer c50v4 on openwrt and archer d20 as ap on one floor. I can only see seamless transfers when I select different bands and wpa2 AES on both. My phones used to stay connect to weak signals (even when stronger ones were present) when I used mixed mode.
Now my devices switch both between diff bands (2.4/5) and same bands on aps seamlessly.
 
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If it works for you, great.

PS: Roaming isn't seamless with FT (but close enough to say it's seamless), 802.11k and w, I don't know it's possible without them since they just help speed up same process(es) unless there's some voodoo going on in the air.
 

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I would say it switches better now but when running iperf3 it doesn't switch easily.

Also I get this msg when finally switched:

iperf3: error - unable to receive control message: Software caused connection abort

@wheatbread U are using 802.11k and w not r?
 
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You can have same SSID with FT enabled, non-FT WPA2, WPA, WPA3. Clients choose which is the best one they recognise and connect using that protocol.
Here if you enable FT with mixed mode, your AP broadcasts same SSID with WPA, WPA3 with FT and WPA2 with non-FT because if clients don't recognise FT they can't join the network (with WPA2)

I don't know what was the point of quoting things out of the context, both people in this thread aren't using FT they are trying get away with forcing clients to switch on poor connectivity, I said that in that context and I'm pretty sure somewhere in that document it's mentioned that FT implementation is a breaking change so every implementation has to broadcast FT with non FT too.
 
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