So what's the thinkpad of routers, Jow Forums? Don't see any mention of Mikrotiks on the sticky, but I've seen mentions of it.
Was going to get the RB2011UiAS, or should I just stick with the suggested Asus / TP-Link ones?
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Brody Ward
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Jacob Gonzalez
Bump
Nolan Thompson
wait for wifi 6
John Barnes
routers aren't that hard to fuck up hardware wise, it's usually the firmware that sucks ass. almost any router is good if you use DDWRT and what not alternative firmware exists
i had that red mikrotik for a 1 gbit connection (from your img) and it wasn't that good , it's actually quite slow
Samuel Cooper
APU2 with pfSense, a switch, and a dedicated access point.
Blake Foster
I currently use a Palo Alto PA-850 running PanOS. It's the best! Great for gaming
Caleb Lewis
Ubiquiti
Carson Johnson
>wait
No I need wifi now
That's disappointing, thanks for the heads up
By your sentence structure I'm assuming this is a meme
Ryan Mitchell
>Asus / TP-Link
Based
Xavier Harris
Your mom is a meme son!
Brandon Roberts
Get a $150 R710 and virtualize pfSense. You can use the other 24GB of RAM and 6 cores you'll have for virtualizing some application servers.
David Torres
>No I need wifi now
no you don't
Oliver Reed
>Get a $150 R710 and virtualize pfSense
>uses 500 watts
Evan Taylor
pfsense is stupid. it requires to much touchy feely bs, to run even some what kosher
Brayden Gomez
More like 120. You do have a server rack, right?
What the fuck are you talking about?
Matthew Thomas
I agree with pfsense but
dedicated firewalls > virtual
Blake Richardson
Just get a Sony router, they're good quality and come with 5 years of warranty.
Jeremiah Adams
pfsense is too easy to defeat! what the fuck are you harping about now?
Ryan Moore
depends on your budget and connection speed really.
nothing broadcom based if you want open source support generally.
Luke Taylor
Colton Cox
got one of these bad boys the web configuration utility has nice how-to's right there in each menu
James Brooks
unironically this you can find these at thrift stores for 2$ and 90% of all versions support DDWRT
Carter Smith
They have shitty wireless, though.
Aiden Ramirez
Why a router and not a switch ?
Jaxson Edwards
The thinkpad meme of routers is building your fucking own, retard.
Jack Wood
Are there new versions? I had to ditch mine when ISP started offering 100 mbits because router was 54 mbits, not to mention it supports only old wifi standard and lacks 5 ghz band
Jordan Baker
Is there any chinkshit you can order from Aliexpress that has more powerful antennas because they don't give a shit about FCC regulations?
Andrew Wilson
What if I have >comcast and I need a docsis 3.1 router? Am I simply fucked?
Ryan Bennett
>So what's the thinkpad of routers
A thinkpad
Use a separate dedicated wireless AP
John Powell
what?
You can do that with a regular router and open firmware, even.
Fuck with the settings.
A better antenna isn't going to be "not giving a fuck" about regs, dumbass. It's just using a better antenna. You're not going to get better antennas from chinkshit.
The fcc regulations control output wattage. Stronger antennas and better positioning will get better range, and is legal.
OpenWRT can do what you want.
>docsis 3.1 router
>am i simply fucked?
you may be beyond help
A modem, user. You need a docsis 3.1 modem. Comcast uses modem+router combos, which suck.
Get an arris surfboard
get a router of your choice off the openwrt device list, that fits your needs.
or, if you're based: build your own.
Brayden Gonzalez
Well I meant output wattage as in stronger signal I don't know if it's controlled by antennas or the router itself. Also it was possible in the past but last I checked new routers are locked at hardware level but I guess you could get around it by importing a router from a country that has higher limits than what FCC set.
Aaron Sanchez
Buy an old Xeon workstation, add a quad NIC and install pfsense.
T. Running a Xeon equivalent of an i7 2600k.
For wireless just get a bunch of Ubiquity AP's and you're golden
Nathaniel Hill
>at hardware level
you literally set an integer in a config.
it's called txpower.
the integer corresponds to output power in decibels.
Parker Campbell
It still can't go above legal limit, can it? My point was making a router with a signal so powerful I can use my home wifi at work
Brayden Williams
Lol, how far away do you work?
Which wireless band are you on? What time of day? What's your elevation like? city or country?
These are only a few factors, and you're not going to get that out of 2.4 or 5ghz and a tiny router, EVER
maybe if you work down the block.
That's just not how radio works.
Also, required reading for retards:
openwrt.org
Don't do this. It's stupid, irresponsible, and careless.
The FCC may not hunt you down, at first, but i guarantee you can and will face consequences eventually. You'll interfere with everything around you, and any dickhead with a spectrum analyzer will see your stupid network spilling over. They don't fuck around with it.
Kevin Perez
HOWEVER
amplifier?
please don't do this, ever. It's retarded and not useful anywhere close to the source at all, but it gets me thinking
(me)
Henry Reed
>What the fuck are you talking about?
Not him but pfsense is useless for most people, just put debian buster with FRR and you're good.
Ryder Smith
>Palo Alto PA-850
this user might be on to something