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What do you recommend router-wise? I'm currently using an EdgeRouter PoE and have been happy with it, but I'm setting up a home network at a condo and am resear

What do you recommend router-wise? I'm currently using an EdgeRouter PoE and have been happy with it, but I'm setting up a home network at a condo and am researching options.

amiga-workbench 8y ago
I'm actually just running a hAP lite for home use, one of my friends works for a WISP and they're using EdgeRouter's on their towers, he seems pretty damn happy with them. I don't have much going on with my router, a few open ports, blocked domains and its running a L2TP over IPsec VPN for when I want to access my home IP cams. I bought the older RB2011UiAS-RM years ago for work to replace their two crappy BT business hubs and setup dual DSL failover with a 3G dongle as a backup. I've never had to reboot any of them due to a malfunction or crash, they just keep going and the performance is top notch for the medium size business they're servicing.
berbec 8y ago
It's hard to beat a $50 craigslist dual+ core box, a second nic and pfSense. I have a dell optiplex 780. I paid $15 for a second nic. It's great.
- justinsaccount 8y ago
  > It's hard to beat a $50 craigslist dual+ core box, a second nic and pfSense unless you pay for your own power. An edge router lite uses <10w. How much does it cost to run the pfsense box over the course of 2 years?
  - FooHentai 8y ago
    Those dells pull about 30W at near-idle. Let's assume 40W given an extra NIC and the workload running. US domestic power averages about 12.3 cents per kWh. So 36 bucks a year versus 8 bucks per year for the ERL.
  - inferiorhuman 8y ago
    Don't forget that the ERL will cook itself to death unless you improve the cooling. The case itself will reach temps of about 40C under normal operating conditions. https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeRouter/CPU-fan-mod-cpu-temperature/td-p/431105/page/3 https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeRouter/CPU-fan-mod-cpu-tem...
    - Fnoord 8y ago
      > Don't forget that the ERL will cook itself to death unless you improve the cooling. It will? No, that implies it is inevitably going to happen with every device which is not the case. A better wording is it might, depending on (unclear) circumstances.
      - inferiorhuman 8y ago
        > It will? No, that implies it is inevitably going to happen with every device which is not the case. A better wording is it might, depending on (unclear) circumstances. At those temperatures (40C exterior temp at idle) cooking to death is pretty certain. Look at the complaints of glitchy ERLs as a proxy for impending death. Meanwhile it's pretty clear that the Octeon runs hot and UBNT didn't provide sufficient cooling.
        Fnoord 8y ago
        Again, I am not denying there are people who have issues what I am saying is we don't have enough data to figure what the signal/noise ratio is regarding dying devices.

What do you recommend router-wise? I'm currently using an EdgeRouter PoE and have been happy with it, but I'm setting up a home network at a condo and am researching options.

amiga-workbench 8y ago

I'm actually just running a hAP lite for home use, one of my friends works for a WISP and they're using EdgeRouter's on their towers, he seems pretty damn happy with them. I don't have much going on with my router, a few open ports, blocked domains and its running a L2TP over IPsec VPN for when I want to access my home IP cams. I bought the older RB2011UiAS-RM years ago for work to replace their two crappy BT business hubs and setup dual DSL failover with a 3G dongle as a backup. I've never had to reboot any of them due to a malfunction or crash, they just keep going and the performance is top notch for the medium size business they're servicing.

berbec 8y ago

It's hard to beat a $50 craigslist dual+ core box, a second nic and pfSense. I have a dell optiplex 780. I paid $15 for a second nic. It's great.

justinsaccount 8y ago
> It's hard to beat a $50 craigslist dual+ core box, a second nic and pfSense unless you pay for your own power. An edge router lite uses <10w. How much does it cost to run the pfsense box over the course of 2 years?
- FooHentai 8y ago
  Those dells pull about 30W at near-idle. Let's assume 40W given an extra NIC and the workload running. US domestic power averages about 12.3 cents per kWh. So 36 bucks a year versus 8 bucks per year for the ERL.
- inferiorhuman 8y ago
  Don't forget that the ERL will cook itself to death unless you improve the cooling. The case itself will reach temps of about 40C under normal operating conditions. https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeRouter/CPU-fan-mod-cpu-temperature/td-p/431105/page/3 https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeRouter/CPU-fan-mod-cpu-tem...
  - Fnoord 8y ago
    > Don't forget that the ERL will cook itself to death unless you improve the cooling. It will? No, that implies it is inevitably going to happen with every device which is not the case. A better wording is it might, depending on (unclear) circumstances.
    - inferiorhuman 8y ago
      > It will? No, that implies it is inevitably going to happen with every device which is not the case. A better wording is it might, depending on (unclear) circumstances. At those temperatures (40C exterior temp at idle) cooking to death is pretty certain. Look at the complaints of glitchy ERLs as a proxy for impending death. Meanwhile it's pretty clear that the Octeon runs hot and UBNT didn't provide sufficient cooling.
      - Fnoord 8y ago
        Again, I am not denying there are people who have issues what I am saying is we don't have enough data to figure what the signal/noise ratio is regarding dying devices.