varx (is elsewhere now)Feb 17, 2018

Anyone have recommendations for a home router/WAP? Currently have a Netgear R7000P and it's making trouble for long-running connections. My needs are pretty simple:

- Reasonable wireless and ethernet speed. Doesn't need to be fancy, don't even have any 5G devices.
- Sane port-forwarding interface allowing TCP/UDP forwarding of individual ports *by destination MAC*, not by dest. LAN IP (unless can configure static LAN IPs by MAC!)

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Show threadvarx (is elsewhere now)Feb 17, 2018

Other needs:

- Stability (don't want to have to restart the thing weekly)
- Reasonable security (WPA2-PSK, no default password on admin UI)
- Can back up /restore settings
- Works in US wifi bands, I guess
- Assign static IPs by MAC (changed my mind, this is a must)

Nice to have:

- View DHCP table
- IPv6 capable
- Ability to adjust LAN IP range/subnet
- Inexpensive ;-)

Show threadtech? no! man, see...Feb 17, 2018
@varx out of curiosity, is the "no default password" requirement kind of like a "no brown M&Ms" thing where it doesn't matter on its own but is highly correlated with incompetence?
Show threadvarx (is elsewhere now)
@technomancy Oh whoops, no, I miswrote that! Should be "no *hardcoded, unchangeable* default admin password"—i.e. no backdoor password.
Feb 17, 2018 at 2:13amWeb