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if i went with ubi i would go with Cloud Gateway Ultra
i use ubi at work and installed few of them, the panel looks nice and it feels professional
the price is meh for some and creazy good deal for others
im pretty sure i'll go with the gl.inet
i heard good things about the company, people here are recommending it and it would remove 2 other devides, my shit access point and my network extender
i dont actually need network extender... i just used it to extend my phones hotspot, so then i can connect it via cable and have network access to everything in my home, the one you guys recommended has this built in with few clicks
thats a 20€ feature im ready to buy
the access point is another 30-50€
so at the end the 150€ looks ok/fair
found one for 130€, will probably wait till black friday ^^
if you guys have suggestions/ideas, please post
also, thanks to everyone suggesting stuff
and i hope i dont have to ask regarding config too much.... (im really awful at networking, i have 3 proxmox servers and none have ipv6 cuz no fucking idea how to set that up lmfao)
(send ipv6 help lol)
I use MikroTik too. A CCR2004 at home and CCR2216 for Fourplex (don't judge, ik Juniper is "better").
I used to be a big FreeBSD user, including OPNsense. But have mostly given up on it. I also was never truly happy with x86 firewall hardware, so I bailed.
There are many things I do on my home network where MikroTik is better suited than OPNsense, like split tunneling devices to a L2TP VPN versus direct IP: I use a 5G SIM card where some devices bypass the VPN, otherwise I'd get throttled. I can get cable but don't because 5G gives me double of Spectrum's uploads, and can't get fiber or mid/high split.
Also, I like having a command line.
Unifi
ah, yeah 4g here is uhh bad
5g does not exist
fiber is at the house but not hooked up/you cant order it
cable is pretty bad, no port opening either, the vodafone hardware has to be rebooted every few days (i hooked up a smart outlet and home asisstang ping 1.1.1.1)
and dsl/vdsl is such a nightmare i paid probably close to 200€ in fees, pain, different hardware and not to mind hours of trying shit out (vdsl breaks code here, they know it... and they dont care)
yeah mikrotik sounds nice too, but pretty sure i'll go with the other player
command line is not for me for internet service.
I like OPNsense and would recommend it here, but be warned that their community support is absolutely dire. Their forums are full of unhelpful smug twats who ask why someone is doing X, imply it's wrong, (for whatever reason), and then don't help with the original question.
There's plenty of getting started videos on YouTube, the documentation is pretty good and it's not that hard to configure, but if you ever want to do anything unorthodox you'll have to figure it out for yourself.
Been using the OpenWRT One router for almost a year and like it. You can get it on Amazon if you want ~$100. It only has one LAN port (no built-in switch) so you would need to connect it to an external switch if you want more wired LAN ports.
https://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/one
I run Beryl AX (https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-mt3000/) and it was my best money spend last year, 70$ from ali
Yeah, for tethering to your phone, you can use either the wifi repeater mode (does cutdown the max wifi speed since it switches from ap to client) or you can just plug into the usb port. Both is how I use my gl.inet travel router (currently a slate 7 but I did use the older slates and beryl devices). It's just nice to have a small router on the go where you control the lan side and the network you don't own is firewalled off. Plus, setting up a vpn on the router and not worrying about it on each client is nice. Also, some place charge for wifi or limit the number of devices that can be connected so that one device can be the travel router.
The reason why I can't speak for their home devices is because I have a nice rack setup with ubiquiti unifi devices. Wouldn't make much sense for me to get one of their home routers. If I didn't have that setup though, I would probably have a gl.inet home router...
Edit: If I am tethering with my phone, I always use the USB port since it keeps the wifi faster (only noticable if you talk to devices on the lan side) and it keeps my phone charged.
Openwrt really is a project. It's kind of shitty (experience with porting it to a WiFi platform that used open source drivers instead of MUCH, MUCH better closed and proprietary drivers from Qualcomm).
The only reason people don't know it sucks so much because they've never QA'd it to know.
This would be like 8ish years ago.
Wouldn't be weirder than a lots of recent topics! Embrace the convenient!
I'm not sure about the market over there, here in APAC I can get lower price if I opt for the "non-international" model (HK/CN specific). It takes about 10s to ssh into the Flint 2 and convert region to international, after that there is no difference, even OTA update firmware to international one as well!