You can basically disable everything on the VDSL2+ modem and still use your AC68U for PPPOE and virtually everything else.
Routers
I know. its just sad that having GPON was so nice and then i had to go back to VDSL.
At least the modem isn't telstra's garbage. People ask me all the time why their internet sucks and half the time its because they are using some half baked ISP hackjob firmware on a cheap underpowered router.
VDSL2+ isn't too bad, I mean my modem is a DSL-6740C VDSL2 and it works wonderfully, after I disabled everything and let my router do the work.
We can't even buy our own modems here because while my place is a single line 100Mbps, my friends place is dual line DSL-7740C which basically 2 50Mbps lines bonded together.
ISP called a few days ago and said they are going to start rolling out 300Mbps~1GBps to my area soon, $10 USD more to go from 100/40 to 300/100, I can't wait. Real FTTH instead of FTTB and copper.
Why most routers still WPA2? Isn't it obsolete already since WPA3 is already here?
Which hardware do you run it on?
Pfsense noob here, few questions:
what kind of hardware this is running on(netgate?), switch - APs you have connected to this box.
It's going to be a while till routers and hardware catch up.
That's like asking why routers aren't all 802.11 AX, AD or 802.11AC Wave2 TriBAND
Hardware is apu2c4, you can see on the left side. This is not netgate hardware but it's a pretty common build.
The switch is a Unifi us-8-60w and the AP is a Unifi AP-AC-LR, 2017 model.
Thanks. How hot does it get on high load?
Around 60C, tjmax is 90C so nothing to worry about.