Obviously with this setup my Qotom box will be the main cog in my network and I intend to set the two wifi's at opposite 1/3rd's of my ranch in the basement to cover the house with enough signal for all. This still leaves me with questions.
With security/NAT/VPN/DHCP being handled at the pfsense box, should I leave the wifi routers on their manufacturer's firmware? 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.
My internet is currently via Spectrum and is seems to be routinely in the 30-40MB range although I've seen it spike up near 100. With that in mind, 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.
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