What are your wireless setups behind your opnsense boxes?

[kkoh]

I am done testing with my Qotom box and have the general settings the way I intend to put into my house. I'm now wondering what the best practice is for the Wireless router(s) behind the border.

My setup will be a 30-40MB cable internet going into the Qotom box. I intend for it to handle security/NAT/VPN/DHCP and perhaps some Ad Blocking. I have an Archer C7 v2 and a Netgear R7000 to space out in the basement of my single story ranch to maximize coverage.

I'm wondering if I should stick with their manufacturer's firmware? My gut reaction is a yes since they would likely get the highest throughput and often the best signal for their 2.4/5G but bridging and repeating in stock is usually poorly implemented if implemented at all.

I feel like so long as I can consistently get 100MB on wifi I'd throw a *wrt on the boxes if this can make bridging and/or hand-offs of wifi traffic easier to setup and maintain. I've got the Archer C7 v2 box which has some custom builds that apparently get really good throughput as well. I've used both Advanced Tomato and stock on the R7000. Ideally the internal Wi-fi will have high throughput as well for streaming devices and shares from my NAS but consistent throughput and stability would rank higher on the scale as we don't have a lot going on.Suggestions appreciated.

[bartjsmit]

Ubiquiti. Technically and stylistically top of the range.

You can use one AP to cover a medium sized house, or you can go totally over the top: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/enterprise-wi-fi-at-home-part-two-reflecting-on-almost-three-years-with-pro-gear/

Bart...

[kkoh]

My goal is not to spend more money as the budget was pretty much blown with the Qotom purchase. I technically have access to some UAC LRs but in my prior attempt with them I ran into loads of problems specifcally with iPhone/iPad devices and tried various firmwares but never got them working consistently.
That was at work. At home the last thing I want to do is continually tinker and troubleshoot when my kids or wife are having apple problems.

[walkerx]

i have google wifi installed, but to get full mesh capabilities you have to use in router mode only but then you get double-nat (not worked out how to get ipv6 across and working to prevent this)

if you want ap mode then you have to hard-wire them for this

I did have the Netgear Orbi's which were fine when they worked, but nothing but constant problems with them so switched to GW and they've been working fine

If you don't use wifi for games consoles or laptops for gaming, then you should be ok with double-nat on google wifi, but ideally you want AP mode as this will be seemless and if not bothered about mesh networking, it would probably be easier.