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I wonder, are there simple powerful just AP's comparable to the already mentioned routers? Just with less features...
by roseltraut 10y ago
I wonder, are there simple powerful just AP's comparable to the already mentioned routers? Just with less features...
- Zelmor 10y agoyes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9482696 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9482696
- hedora 10y agoI had the Asus AC68U, which was the best rated consumer router on smallnetbuilders, in terms of wifi range and speed. I just replaced it with a Ubiquiti AC-PRO access point which is much cheaper than the Asus. The Ubiquiti is maginally better in my informal testing with the two in the same location. After ceiling-mounting the Ubiquti in a more central location, it blows the asus out of the water. It went from ~100 MBit -> 500+ on the old "dead spot" desktop, the raspberry pi on that desk went from 22MBit to 72MBit. The rest of the house has better coverage than before. For a router, I use openbsd and this guide: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13052673 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13052673 The router is an AMD that runs almost any unix, so it is more or less immune to obsolescence due to lack of software updates (Linux and *BSD all have to abandon headless x86-64...) Total cost was ~$300. The router was $200 of that and should last until my home internet connection is ~1GBit (OpenBSD probably can't NAT quite that quickly on that hardware--haven't measured it). [edit: fixed asus model number]