havnt fucked with routers in 10 years is there anypoint in buying those $300 routers?
is this too much to spend on a router?
Havnt fucked with routers in 10 years is there anypoint in buying those $300 routers?
Xavier Walker
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Elijah Stewart
No just get a mikrotik
Nicholas Gutierrez
>300 routers
Do you need the features it has over a 100 USD router?
>Yes
Buy the 300USD router.
>No.
Don't buy the 300USD router.
Isaiah Wood
no just go to your local thrift shop and buy one
Easton Long
If they have good hardware and custom firmware support, then yes. Otherwise, not really. I have a 300 dollars LinkSys router. Great hardware, custom firmware, the works, VPN directly on it. Worth the money.
Jace White
what routers dont have bufferbloat problems?
Liam Collins
No just use your isp one.
Ayden Butler
Should be possible to implement on any router supporting OpenWRT
github.com
Justin Rivera
get an edge router x and a separate access point
50$ for wired router with great firmware
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70-150$ for a great access point that is not tied to the router, great for me as I run a cable to the center of my house, and put the wireless there and have the wired router next to my computer.
as for reason, typically the more expensive give you overall more bandwidth, but honestly, any consumer facing company sucks every dick that is put in front of them, asus sent out a firmware that my router said would work with it, my router downloaded it and whoops you don't have wireless anymore because this firmware was not for this router, it was for the exact same one but 1 revision newer but we labeled it as something your router could use so fuck you.
I say ubiquity over anything else also because consumer routers are shit, and linksys/cisco has gone to absolute shit consumer side, and costs to fucking much for the pro/enterprise entry solutions, a point where ubiquity beats them quite handily.
David Lopez
Not OP but what cheap router you guys recommend? I've been using a DI 524 150mps since 2010 or so but it's starting to show its age when I try to stream high bitrate videos on my network.
Juan Hernandez
No op
Buy a used dell optiplex off Craigslist for $150 or cheaper
Get a low profile Intel dual nic card for $50
Buy a ubiq wireless access point for $80
Buy a network switch for $25
Install pfsense on computer
Never worry again about such things
Or buy the $300 gaymer router that will die in 2 years
Your call user
Ryan Rivera
just use the stock Xfinity router that costs 10 dollars a month to rent goy!
Easton Miller
Are you saying that you're still using an ancient router from 2008?
Joshua Johnson
Your router and ap should be separate devices
Jack Lewis
>intel dual nic
>network switch
ever heard of throttling? that single ethernet wire to the switch is not enough
Evan King
@67425221
I will never understand posters like yourself
Justin Hughes
The fuck crack you smoking
Unless you have fiber with 1gb up and down cat6 is perfectly able to handle most anons needs between router and switch
I guess you could go overkill and get a sfp setup but why
Brayden Collins
>2018
>not building a pfsense router and a security onion firewall
Camden Evans
Triband router with built in usb drive NAS and DLNA is pretty sweet. It all depends on what you need out of ur router though.
if you only care about wifi signal strength than a dual band is fine. You can use 2.4 GHz for long ranges and 5 GHz for devices in the same room or adjacent rooms. If you want 3 bands for different things like WAN 4k hdr streaming then one of those 300 dollar routers is perfect for you.
Tldr: its only worth it if you plan on taking advantage of its extra features
Sebastian Stewart
and how will it connect to DSL?
Isaac Bell
then you need a modem.
just buy the following
>edgerouter x sfp (fiberport for futureproofing
>any managed gigabit switch with poe
>as many UAP-ACs as needed
thank me later
Logan Morgan
>havnt fucked with routers in 10 years is there anypoint in buying those $300 routers?
yes