<p style=“text-align: left;“>Hi Stefan,</p>
In my case, openwrt has much more flexibility to fine tune the WiFi connection to the router or access point. Compared to openwrt the stock to link OS is very limited, especially in channels and power settings. In my, high WiFi interference environment I could never get a good enough signal to stream without drops. With openwrt I can get an almost perfect, interference free signal. Which I found has a very obvious impact on sound as it reduces all the work done by the 902ac to sort out all the retries. I did some tests yesterday and even a small amount of extra retries takes the 902ac load from under 10% up to 50% (this is seen within the overview section of the openwrt web interface).
These are my reasons for the openwrt direction. Others might have different reasons.
Cheers,
B.