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I disagree with some of these points: 1. Z-wave is better, but Wifi can be fine in the right environment. Like, my weather station uses Wifi because it sends

I disagree with some of these points: 1. Z-wave is better, but Wifi can be fine in the right environment. Like, my weather station uses Wifi because it sends a few bytes of data to a server once a minute. No need for an additional protocol going on that interferes with everything else on 2.4GHz anyway. I also use Wifi for a sensor I put in my box that stores 3D printer filament to measure its humidity, so I know when to recharge the desiccant. An ESP32 wakes up every half hour, measures the humidity, and sends it over HTTPS to an InfluxDB instance in "the cloud". Its tiny lithium polymer battery lasts a year. It took me maybe an hour to design the hardware and write the software for it. Why do anything more complicated? Why bother with an esoteric protocol when you just want to use the Internet? 3. Consumer grade routers are great these days. I have a 10G WAN, 10G LAN, and Wifi6e on the router that Verizon provides with my service for free. To buy something like that myself, I'd be spending 700 or 800 dollars so that I can pretend to be a sysadmin on my day off. Why bother?

boringuser2 3y ago
3. I don't think you're understanding what the contentions about consumer grade routers are. Make no mistake: consumer grade routers are a massive security risk, and continue to be to this day. They have no incentive to respond to and mitigate CVEs. They frequently have hardwired credentials. They don't have robust networking tools. They are common targets for hacks for these reasons. Regarding throughput, yes, 10gb is quite a bit. It'd probably be somewhat troublesome to get a home router with those kinds of physical ports (though CPU throughput would be trivial, see Intel's latest offerings. The n100 range can saturate any reasonable connection, including IPS, which you don't have). It's just not necessary, though. I am a power user, software engineer, hosting ~50 docker containers, many with custom code on 300mbps. No slowdown. No saturation. Furthermore, a cheap enterprise AP from eBay, even on wifi 5, is vastly superior to your Verizon AP. I'm not a networking professional. I installed OpnSense and connected a ruckus AP. Done. 1. If you had a decent AP, zigbee interference wouldn't be an issue, wink emoji.

boringuser2 3y ago

3. I don't think you're understanding what the contentions about consumer grade routers are. Make no mistake: consumer grade routers are a massive security risk, and continue to be to this day. They have no incentive to respond to and mitigate CVEs. They frequently have hardwired credentials. They don't have robust networking tools. They are common targets for hacks for these reasons. Regarding throughput, yes, 10gb is quite a bit. It'd probably be somewhat troublesome to get a home router with those kinds of physical ports (though CPU throughput would be trivial, see Intel's latest offerings. The n100 range can saturate any reasonable connection, including IPS, which you don't have). It's just not necessary, though. I am a power user, software engineer, hosting ~50 docker containers, many with custom code on 300mbps. No slowdown. No saturation. Furthermore, a cheap enterprise AP from eBay, even on wifi 5, is vastly superior to your Verizon AP. I'm not a networking professional. I installed OpnSense and connected a ruckus AP. Done. 1. If you had a decent AP, zigbee interference wouldn't be an issue, wink emoji.