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Router of choice?

Router of choice? - Lemmy.World

the FCC ruling yesterday got me thinking about my router, it’s probably due for a replacement by the time the theoretical end of firmware updates baked into that (natural evil is likely around the same time) takes effect. I’m having trouble finding good options particularly in regards to openwrt at least. We currently use two asus rt-ax3000 routers in mesh mode. One attached to the modem because it’s in a really shitty location, and one attached to our home server. I have 3 items that need 2.4ghz for smart home automation and everything else runs 5ghz, 2 laptops phones etc. Everything I can get in local stores isn’t supported by openwrt (neither are the current routers). Looking at using older hardware we have spare (a MacBook Pro 2012 or rpi4) seem to have a track record of underperforming. What are the recommendations for upgrades from here? Follow up question is am I overthinking it? Would the MacBook Pro or rpi4 with a second Ethernet nic running a firewall before the routers also fix the issue of not getting security updates?

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Jul (they/she)

I use OpnSense on a miniPC with an N100 processor. I got a decent one from HUNSN and added memory. I installed ProxMox and OpnSense runs in that along with a pihole instance and a few other services and it is really fast compared to any router I’ve had in the past.

I also use a RAM disk for OpnSense caching and logs, and anything I want to keep gets copied out to my NAS for permanent storage. That helps a lot with performance and SSD drive wear, but with memory so expensive from the LLM bubble, it might be more expensive now than a few years ago when I got mine.

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jamo 4d ago

@irotsoma @socphoenix I got an n100 just before xmas for £70 on Vinted with 8gb ram and a 256gb nvme.

Often seems cheaper to buy computers than components atm.

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eli 4d ago

This is what I was looking into recently. I just want to replace my shitty Spectrum router.

I was looking at Topton N150s on AliExpress, but $250+(tax/shipping) is terrible, with no RAM.

I saw people using the Lenovo m720q/m920q with a pcie 4 port, so I’m leaning towards that.

We’re about to get fiber in the next year or two, so I want to get something that can handle 1g up and down.

There’s a lot of options, none perfect, but none terrible.