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Was days away from refitting my home out with £2,000 of gear. Any other recommendations for routers, wifi and security cameras?
by markwillis82 6y ago
Was days away from refitting my home out with £2,000 of gear. Any other recommendations for routers, wifi and security cameras?
- pseudalopex 6y agoMikrotik is the most common recommendation probably but wifi speed is a problem apparently. There were some other suggestions in yesterday's Ubiquiti discussion.[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26628198 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26628198
- tecleandor 6y agoI use Mikrotik (or OpenWRT) for routers, but Mikrotik is not that good on WiFi. Peeople recommend Ruckus, but it's pretty expensive (and not that easy to get second hand in Europe, or Spain at least). Is there any (good) brand with pricing between Mikrotik and a Ruckus that doesn't need a cloud connection?
- mr_woozy 6y agoIs it not possible to just add in a separate WAP to the MikroTik device ?
- ghostpepper 6y agoCan you elaborate on your experience with Mikrotik wifi? What don't you like about it?
- ruph123 6y agoFor router check out the Turris Omnia [0]. Seems to be a good choice. [0]: https://www.turris.com/en/omnia/overview/ https://www.turris.com/en/omnia/overview/
- pkaye 6y agoThat looks pretty nice. Too bad I didn't see this a week earlier since I just upgrade my home network last week.
- stevenjgarner 6y agoI have happily upgraded several homes from Mikrotik and/or Ubiquiti to Eero mesh - https://eero.com/ https://eero.com/
- Haemm0r 6y ago"an amazon company" already makes some warning lights blink in my head. Do they have cloud integration of any kind?
- pseudalopex 6y agoIt's cloud managed and sends network information to Amazon.
- aborsy 6y agoFor firewall, I suggest an OPNSense box. You could run it on a thin client, a Protectli etc. For AP, OpenWRT seems decent.