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The MediaTek wifi AX platform is supported by OpenWrt master and also supported by upstream Linux including AX wifi. (MediaTek contributes a lot to upstream kernel)

  * MT7622 SoC (2x Cortex-A53, including 4x4 ieee80211n wifi integrated in MT7622 and supported by upstream kernel too)
  * MT7915 Wifi 6 (ieee80211ax) 4x4
  * MT7530 5 port 1G switch (2.5G uplink)
You can find this hardware in the following devices:

  * Linksys E8450 / Belkin RT3200 (same device just different name and color of casing)
  * Ubiquiti UniFi 6 LR
  * Also some others
See here the open source wifi driver for MT7915: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/net/wi...



Unfortunately the Linksys E8450 is unavailable in my country (Poland) or is ridiculously expensive. I settled on a Totolink X5000R which supposedly is supported by OpenWRT and has a Mediatek MT7621A. I will receive it in 2 days and test it.





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