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Great story. Unfortunately i do not have the luxury to spend $2200 on the network infrastructure in my humble home. I do however have a lot of 2nd hand hardwar
by b3lvedere 10y ago
Great story. Unfortunately i do not have the luxury to spend $2200 on the network infrastructure in my humble home.
I do however have a lot of 2nd hand hardware and am able to invest some time into optimizing them for my family's internet needs. It may not be perfect, but it works 90% of the time and i learn a lot about connecting lots of different devices and (virtual) machines.
- ianal_uanal 10y agoYou don't have to. You can do it much cheaper with Ubiquiti's products. EdgeRouter X + AP AC (Pro)
- jon-wood 10y agoUnless you've got a huge house you don't actually need to drop two thousand dollars on networking gear. I'm covering a three bedroom house using one of Ubiquiti's cheapest AC capable access points and the EdgeRouter-X, the whole lot cost me about £120 which is in the ballpark of a consumer router with wireless, yet massively more capable and reliable. Since installing it I've been able to just stop thinking about my home network. It just takes whatever we throw at it, and the wifi is plenty fast enough to stream HD video to the TV.
- jagermo 10y ago1 Unifi LR, 1 Unifi Lite covers all my 150 sqm and cost less than a "high end consumer Wifi Router", about 130 Euros. You don't need so many aps, Troy went a little overboard, imho. And you can start with one LR and just expand the network if you need more.
- pnutjam 10y agoCheck out RouteOS stuff from MikroTik. It's a little less user friendly, but solid. https://routerboard.com/products/group/20 https://routerboard.com/products/group/20