Home Routers -- what's everyone using these days?
Feb 27, 2022, 12:07 am
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Home Routers -- what's everyone using these days?
Does anyone have any recommendations for home routers?
So I'm at a family member's house and their TP-Link Archer C7 died. I temporarily put one of my GL-Inet AR750S Slate travel routers in to hold them over. If it were my place it'd be a PFSense firewall w/Ubiquiti APs, but that's outside of the scope and budget of here. I haven't looked at consumer routers in over a decade and have no idea what's good / bad / ugly these days.
So I'm at a family member's house and their TP-Link Archer C7 died. I temporarily put one of my GL-Inet AR750S Slate travel routers in to hold them over. If it were my place it'd be a PFSense firewall w/Ubiquiti APs, but that's outside of the scope and budget of here. I haven't looked at consumer routers in over a decade and have no idea what's good / bad / ugly these days.
Feb 27, 2022, 10:14 am
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Always Asus, currently AX6000.
I don’t understand the current obsession with wireless mesh networks. Sure there’s the convenience of not having to run a wire to a second AP if you’ve got a large space to cover, but with wireless backhaul you bleed away speed.
I don’t understand the current obsession with wireless mesh networks. Sure there’s the convenience of not having to run a wire to a second AP if you’ve got a large space to cover, but with wireless backhaul you bleed away speed.
Feb 27, 2022, 10:27 am
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For home-use stuff, I'm satisfied. If it's something critical, I'll jump back onto a wired network.
Feb 27, 2022, 1:00 pm
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Currently the Orbi 853 mesh but I’ve been looking more and more at the eero pro, and will probably make that switch once they launch a wireless 6e router
Feb 27, 2022, 1:26 pm
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Ubiquiti Unifi Dream Machine with 2xU6-LR Access Points (though at some point I plan to swap to the rackmounted Dream Machine Pro/SE). Definitely not cheap, but the performance is flawless despite what all the naysayers online might be spouting.
The new Unifi Dream Router is actually pretty good value for money, $80 or so.
The new Unifi Dream Router is actually pretty good value for money, $80 or so.
Feb 27, 2022, 1:31 pm
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linksys ac5000 mu-mimo gigabit router
Bought it because it has eight Ethernet ports instead of the standard four. Running a second, smaller Linksys router off one of those ports (a Linksys EA7500-RM2) so my son has his own network. All that on a Gigabit line from a local ISP. Couldn't be happier.
Feb 27, 2022, 5:07 pm
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I like the Unifi Dream Machine, and I've used it in a couple of business setups.
At home I have the Synology 2600. I've used it to replace the Centurylink fiber 'modem', so now it's just a one-box installation. Added bonus, it has a built-in VPN host, so if I need a US IP address while I'm traveling, I can connect fairly easily, and no VPN client software install is necessary.
That's probably overkill for relatives who just need wifi, but... it also has remote login capability for troubleshooting (and other) purposes, and platform-agnostic fileserver capability, remotely accessible.
Come to think of it, that 2600 replaced an Archer C7 that died.
At home I have the Synology 2600. I've used it to replace the Centurylink fiber 'modem', so now it's just a one-box installation. Added bonus, it has a built-in VPN host, so if I need a US IP address while I'm traveling, I can connect fairly easily, and no VPN client software install is necessary.
That's probably overkill for relatives who just need wifi, but... it also has remote login capability for troubleshooting (and other) purposes, and platform-agnostic fileserver capability, remotely accessible.
Come to think of it, that 2600 replaced an Archer C7 that died.
Feb 27, 2022, 5:28 pm
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Yet another Orbi user here. It just works and we no longer have dead spots in our house although we’re wired between the APs. (no need to ridicule me for having wired backhaul and still using Orbi, they were a great deal at Costco and as I said earlier they just work)