Router Thread

Is this + wireless AP the best router?

I'm tired of shitty routers dropping internet randomly on a daily basis.

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it's decent if all you need is a basic router. The web based config can do a lot but some of the more advanced stuff requires you to ssh in. You'll also need to know something about vyatta since thats what edgerouter os is based off of. Also if you want to use POE passthru you'll need a different power adapter since the included one isn't strong enough for that.

Heh sorry kid. If you aren't running pfsense on an old machine as your router you are out of your league posting here

edgerouter os is based on vyatta
vyos is based on vyatta
edgerouter os is propriatary garbage on inferior hardware and vyos is an open source os you can install on any fucking thing youd ever want

wait for vyos 2.0 release and get a second hand pc and a switch

Where do I even start when it comes to learning about Routers/modems/ISPs?

Asus has the solution for you: more antennas

hail to the king

This. The web config is just too user friendly. The performance isn't that bad (800Mbps+ if DPI turned off and hw nat enabled)

edgerouter lite and unifi ap ac lite somehow have been the most stable network gear I've owned. not a bad deal at all.

Get a machine with two NICs and run a dedicated router. The benefit is worth it and you can find pretty low-power mobos with embedded cpus

Ok I own the usg, and I've been using pfsense for like 10 years. The only reason i bought the usg is because I just moved and my 1u pfsense rack mount box is too loud where I need it and I now have gigabit internet and my atom board will only route 700mb/s. I would choose pfsense over ubiquiti any day. Ubiquiti is good solid gear, but pales is comparison to pfsense features.

That said, if you want to get your pretty graphs and stats wank on, get the usg not the erl, especially if you're going to pair it with an access point.

I just installed some of the in wall access points and they're pretty great.

Its a goddamn shame linksys got sold off and now sells overpriced useless garbage

>Unify
For people who want to feel like they have a managed device without having to manage it

Asus RT-N66U/RT-AC68U running Tomato.

it's even more sad that this old product is still selling well. They can't make a router that is as much of a tank as these again.
arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/07/the-wrt54gl-a-54mbps-router-from-2005-still-makes-millions-for-linksys/

you want a modem + access point. the access point acts as the router

Check to see if your current router supports third party firmware.

My router couldn't keep up with the amount of traffic I was putting through till I installed DD-WRT, never froze since.

I've got that one. Only downside is that it doesn't do standard PoE. Unless you need/want that, it's great.

What does Tomato offer that AsusWRT-Merlin doesn't?

You clearly have no idea

This article actually always makes me smile, especially how clueless the execs are about why it keeps selling

why have a basic router and dedicated access point over a wireless router? literally what is the benefit?

exactly, just buy a modem and a wireless router

> Is this + wireless AP the best router?
Not necessarily, but it is an option.

> I'm tired of shitty routers dropping internet randomly on a daily basis.
Install a decent firmware like OpenWRT on supported hardware. Can work from like $10-15 up.

Looking to replace my ISP issued router which has a shit ton a vulns. What do you guys recommend?

is unify shit?

Pick by support for OpenWRT or another firmware of your choice.

Maybe also have a look at smallnetbuilder.com. They're doing relevant measurements. You probably don't need the best throughput, US ISP generally don't go anywhere near it with their services.

are yall fucking serious or am i being trolled

lets assume youre just ignorant and not a complete dipshit

the ubiquity edge routers make fucking great firewalls, on par with pfsense. poe is something your faggot gamer modem/router is unlikely to provide support for, and even less likely to do it well.

an ap has a lot further coverage than your shitty modem router, and adding a second one in so i can drop off deadzones is another thing your modem router wont do, as bridging is usually not supported. it is on APs.

fucks sake.

you can bridge a wireless router.

NOT

ALL

fuck cunt learn to read

Then get one that does support bridging, dumb fuck.

hey guess what

thats an ubiquity edge router and an ubiquity ap.

hey guess what. I can just have just one fucking device that serves the purpose of both of those devices.

well actually

no you cant

if you can find me any modem router combo that supports bridging and has a firewall onpar with pfsense built in, youll be the winner!

doesn't windows 10 have a firewall built in?

>implying that will help when setting up my jumpbox
6/10, you got me. w10 was too obvious though.

What do you guys even do with that much bandwidth? Or you really want an amazing router? For what purpose?

I prefer mikrotiks as routers, ubiquiti is a good ap though

sharehouse filled with 20 year olds

Ubiquity APs generally provide the same or even less coverage than your average consumer router. They are made for reliability not speed or insane range. The uap-ac-lr model does have better than average range, however.

In a large deployment you don't necessarily want the APs to have long range because you don't want them interfering with each other.

The routers don't have poe because that's what switches are for. It would be nice if the USG could be POE powered though.

>800Mbps+ if DPI turned off and hw nat enabled
guess my search for my new router continues.

I need 1gbps WAN throughput and so many routers fall short by at least a hundred mbps, sometimes more.

I have the usg and it does 1gb/s with dpi on. You cannot enable qos, though. If you need qos and 1gb/s you're going to need beefy xeons and pfsense or something expensive from Cisco, juniper, etc.

>They are made for reliability not speed or insane range
>implying that's a bad thing to have

I've seen the USG struggle to break 800mbps without DPI.

Unless you're talking about the USG-Pro4

Good discussion here about erl and usg performance. I think they've fixed the usg issues but still you might be 30-40mb/s short of full gigabit.

community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Routing-Switching/Gigabit-ISP-USG-slowing-me-down/td-p/1306780/page/2

I didn't imply reliability is bad. For me it's much preferred over some bechmark porn.

With dpi on apparently

Seems like it was fixed for a bit, then not fixed again, i assume for the current firmware it has been fixed, but even so. This late in the product cycle I'm tempted to wait it out and see if they release a new USG with more advanced hardware, as the USG has been unchanged hardware-wise since ~2014.

Probably a good bet. I'm thinking about running my cable line into my garage where my server is and then just vietualizing pfsense.

Yeah, my other idea is to pick up a barebones i3 or i5 server, throw in an SSD and run PFsense.

Cost would be significantly higher than a USG, but the capabilities would be greatly increased, and performance would of course destroy the USG.

I'm still a slavcuck getting my net off ADSL Annex A, what modem should I get?

>ADSL Annex A, what modem should I get?
does it matter?

ADSL Annex A caps out at ~12mbps down and 1.3mbps up. Pretty much any ADSL router from the last decade should work.

maybe not necessarily that particular make or model, but dedicated wired router + decent AP performs better than any all-in-one for less money.

Ubiquiti gets a lot of shit here, but they sell reliable gigabit routers at under $100, which you honestly can't beat on price unless you have a decommissioned (free) workstation to sacrifice.

My ISP sent me a free router a few years ago and it works fine

I'm getting the Edgerouter X and AP just because I want stability over seemingly hit or miss consumer wifi router combos. I don't need super high end features and advanced configuration things, but i'll be damned if I gamble again on another all in one that starts dropping service randomly after a couple years.

Hey Sup Forumsuys

Whats the best AP to connect to an ISP router for a restaurant with 30-40 consumers?

We have a 50mbps speed and i think thats enought.

Also, it should have a flashable firmware so i can configure a captive portal.

Any thoughts?

hopefully someone with more experience can chime in, but from my limited research, ubiquiti seems to be the way to go, they also have configurable captive portals, although you may need a "cloud key" to set that up, or a pc to run the program.

Hallo fellow Texan

I still don't understand how this helps. Does anyone know? Are all those antennas directional underneath those boxes? Even if they were, why not just put 8x the power into a single omnidirectional antenna?

have an edge router and a apac pro

my old consumer routers would crash and need resetting every few days

my edge router has never crashed in the year or so I had it, and only had the access point crash once because of a brown out.

Thanks m8, i appreciate your info.

By configurable captive portal you mean that i can upload my own html pages?

I also hope someone with more experience can help.

i'm not sure, I only saw that it was an option, and even provided options for paid access.

I only own TP-Link stuff.

Anything with openwrt

This some gate to oblivion?

Nice 8 digit keyspace

Literally in within a minute.

>my edge router has never crashed in the year or so I had it

hen you aren't pushing it hard, I have a stack on my desk that I need to replace the USB drive they use for storage because they all seem to die about 1.5 - 2 years after we deply them.

The other issue is that when you have a bunch of routes and firewall rules on them boot times are astronomical.

This

>I need to replace the USB drive they use for storage
the router died, or the USB stick died?

>Asus RT-N66U/RT-AC68U running Tomato
Running RT-N66U with merlin, would also like to know.

>I'm tired of shitty routers dropping internet randomly on a daily basis.
What routers have you used?

my shitty 10€ TP-LINK WR841 never drops connection randomly, and thinking of it, never did any other cheap router I ever had

>What routers have you used?
right now, a "Cisco" Lynksis E3200. prior to that, a stupid netgear piece of garbage.

marketed to gamers

each antenna can simultaneously send data, rather than one antenna sending packets of data one at a time.

I've had both the mainboard and the USB drive die, although, 9/10 its the USB drive

WR841N is fucking goat.
I'm using a few modified ones for industrial applications

>Router Thread
>posts switch

>pfsense
>he isnt using shorewall to configure iptables and manage zones

don't you think it's odd that the company named a "switch" the "edgerouter X"?

Are refurbished mikrotik routerboards any good today?

There;s a legally mandated maximum output power. Some countries have a higher limit than others but none are very high.

>using vulnerable freetard garbage
Sweetie, if you haven't switched to Untangle you're on the wrong side of the digital divide.

Uh, I'm able to push gigabit from one machine to another on the same network, or are you talking about over WAN?

The RB750 is still good today. But if you have 100Mbit internet service it is just barely capable of squeaking out around 90Mbit/s through the firewall depending on your configuration.

it might happen if you download torrents with dht or use something else that opens many connections. cheap routers have only 32mb ram and at least half of that is used after booting and they have some shitty mips/arm cpu that gets overloaded by almost everything..

They both do their jobs independently well. Not to mention the unifi wap can brought online as a group and do some pretty nice stuff completely independent of the router and work as a single unit doing hand offs, multiple vlans, captive portal networks, etc.

Not to mention if one shits the bed you're not out for everything else.

and it's not going to be as good or as reliable as something whose purpose is dedicated to being a wap

we have a decent router running dd-wrt as a wap, it's mediocre at best, a single $70 unifi wap not only replaces it but outdoes it tenfold

Streaming in home from plex is the big one for me. Having a non-shit router and wap makes things less painful.

This thread is called /RAPE/

>legally mandated
Kek.
Nothing is stopping you from pushing 1 watt from a transmitter into a 34dbi dish.
Should be good for 23 fucking times the legal limit of 5ghz.

Autistic ham radio nerds will trilaterate your position and report you to the FCC, and then you're truly fucked

why would those old faggots care about wifi networks

i bet a sizable monitor all kinds of bands for no good reason

>keeping a high power transmission up long enough to get the fccs attention
For what purpose

WAN throughput

i know people use asus routers are meme's but i've been using one since 2015, kept up with its firmware updates, and have had ZERO issues with it. i forget its model, but its like your pic related but four antennas instead of eight. black with alter like antennas.

i don't have gig internet, but it handles my 350mbps connection without a hitch. i have my cisco 1gb switch connected to it which handles all my lan stuff so i just use it as my access point to the internets and its wifi for my wireless. and everything plays well.

asus and TP-link seem to be the most well regarded consumer-grade routers lately.

It's a replicator

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