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What Router can you recommend?
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If you’re new, something like Uniquiti UniFi stack is very beginner friendly and well polished.
If you’re planning to run your own hardware, the usual recommendation seems to be pfsense or opnsense on a modern lower end system (Intel N100 box for example).
Bearing in mind that a router is only responsible for routing (think directing the packets where to go). You’d also want to have access points to provide WiFi for your wireless devices. This is where UniFi stack makes it easier because you can just choose their access point hardware and control through single controller. Whereas rolling your own you’d be looking at getting something else to fill that role.
I second everything said here.
UniFi is a good starting place, and pfsense is good if you really want to dig in.
On one hand I love unify on the other I wish i never went this route. They do make it very simple to manage a whole suite of devices. But updates sometimes feel "Alpha/beta" some more advanced stuff requires editing jsons in the devices them self. Also recently the battery in my cloud key gen 2 has blown and their is no way to replace it without replacing the whole cloudkey. Thing lasted like 2 years. which is ridiculous. Personally I have started to look in to Mikrotik which is a load more advanced and has a higher learning curve. but if I am forced to edit jsons and use scripts to do some more advanced things i might as well.
Sorry for the slight rant... just be aware what you can get your self in to.
Good points -- I've never ran into any issues with UniFi personally.
At the time I was self-hosting the UniFi Controller on my Proxmox server for a switch and an AP. So i suppose your mileage may vary with UniFi.
As far as routers go, I've been running a pfsense for a while and its been great. There is definitely a bit of a learning curve and it's not something that I'd recommend to someone who has little networking knowledge. Once you understand how to work with it, there is very little you can't do.
Mikrotik has pop-ed up on my radar recently too, might have to give them a look.
Edit: Phrasing.