Most wifi 5 routers have bad security issues, latency, crap QoS and, a lot of Wifi 5 chips don’t have the hardware acceleration needed to be useful anymore, and if they’re not supported by firmware like OpenWRT they’re mostly just e-waste/bot net boxes. I seen wifi 7 routers going for 25$ where i live they don’t have 6Ghz.
Most wifi 5 routers have bad security issues, latency, crap QoS and, a lot of Wifi 5 chips don’t have the hardware acceleration needed to be useful anymore, and if they’re not supported by firmware like OpenWRT they’re mostly just e-waste/bot net boxes. I seen wifi 7 routers going for 25$ where i live they don’t have 6Ghz.
I have a Ubiquiti AP along with some Google wifi (pre nest) hubs running OpenWRT all with 2.4 / 5.
And honestly I see no reason to update in the coming years, unless there are some major vulnerabilities around these devices.
I don’t need the fastest wireless speeds or latency, if I need either I’ll sit at my desktop or have a server handle the downloads via Ethernet.