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Yeah, I've been frustrated with the router space for a while recently so I figured you might benefit from my research (and likely bias as well). Too bad others

Yeah, I've been frustrated with the router space for a while recently so I figured you might benefit from my research (and likely bias as well). Too bad others in this thread downvoted me without responding, though -- if anybody can recommend a decent answer to this question that I didn't cover or explain why I'm wrong, I'm happy to admit that. I would really like there to be a decent router out there for my use case. The biggest reason I don't use a Google router or something of that ilk is exactly what you mentioned in this comment: I don't want basic functionality like port forwarding locked behind some cloud account that I might have to pay for monthly eventually (or might get shut down). At least my current hardware will likely work perfectly until the hardware fails.

yardstick 5y ago
What’s your opinion on Mikrotik devices?
- dont__panic 5y ago
  I looked into them a while back, and they do generally seem to be capable devices. I think they fall into the too-footgun-y category I mention above, though -- if you don't already know a lot about networks, you can easily leave gaping holes in your network security since there are so many options to screw up. They're a bit on the expensive side, too, and honestly even trying to figure out which router to buy was enough of a nightmare to dissuade me.
cycomanic 5y ago
I think the reason why you got downvoted is because you made broad sweeping statements without anything to back it up. It also does not reflect my experience, the amount of routers running open source systems that one can buy is much larger than it has ever been (I pointed out some options further up the thread), ASUS uses dd-wrt IIRC and others. Also the openwrt/pfsense/opnsense solutions are not really slower than commercial offerings, many offerings now are capable of running OpenVPN at reasonable speeds, in particular if your CPU has AES-NI support. The way it was written your statement sounded like a Apple shill really.
daydream 5y ago
I got an Amplifi Alien recently. They are expensive!!! but it has been rock solid and makes full use of my gigabit uplink. I disabled all the cloud stuff so no issues there. I wanted something fast and reliable that I wouldn’t ever have to mess with, and didn’t mind paying more to get it. Wi-Fi is fast on this thing. First run experience was total crap but once I got past that no issues. I recommend it.

yardstick 5y ago

What’s your opinion on Mikrotik devices?

dont__panic 5y ago
I looked into them a while back, and they do generally seem to be capable devices. I think they fall into the too-footgun-y category I mention above, though -- if you don't already know a lot about networks, you can easily leave gaping holes in your network security since there are so many options to screw up. They're a bit on the expensive side, too, and honestly even trying to figure out which router to buy was enough of a nightmare to dissuade me.

cycomanic 5y ago

I think the reason why you got downvoted is because you made broad sweeping statements without anything to back it up. It also does not reflect my experience, the amount of routers running open source systems that one can buy is much larger than it has ever been (I pointed out some options further up the thread), ASUS uses dd-wrt IIRC and others. Also the openwrt/pfsense/opnsense solutions are not really slower than commercial offerings, many offerings now are capable of running OpenVPN at reasonable speeds, in particular if your CPU has AES-NI support. The way it was written your statement sounded like a Apple shill really.

daydream 5y ago

I got an Amplifi Alien recently. They are expensive!!! but it has been rock solid and makes full use of my gigabit uplink. I disabled all the cloud stuff so no issues there. I wanted something fast and reliable that I wouldn’t ever have to mess with, and didn’t mind paying more to get it. Wi-Fi is fast on this thing. First run experience was total crap but once I got past that no issues. I recommend it.