What's the best router right now?

What's the best router right now?

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A computed with 2 NICs
And a descend switch attached to it

Too much work

Any tplink will work.

Nah

Also needs dedicated AP.

Depends on what you need. How much do you want to spend? What features do you need? How much traffic goes through it? Are you worried about security?

Netgear Orbi.

This is the future of routers, deal with it.

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This or other like it Google Wifi etc

Set this up in a new house...cat6 in every room. setup 3 Google Wifi linked with ethernet backbone...works great!

If you're looking at WAPs then Ubiquiti should be the first brand you look into, their stuff is bullet proof

Wtf cmon dude those router are complete garbage
What happened, g? I leave for a few months and everyone is a normie now
Anyways: r7800 or wrt3200acm? I need something with 10/10 signal and plan to put Lede on it.

N66U

Someone already posted about doing it yourself, their have been normies here since day one. Anyone harping on about graphics cards or ricing their DE are the same kind of people recommending these sorts of network solutions.

Also consider that most programmers here are in fact brogrammers with little knowledge of anything outside of the environment they build with

be a good goy and just google top 5 gamer routers 2017

routers are bloat
wifi is bloat and slow
smartphones are botnets

Google Wifi provides a mesh solution for a large house that can be linked via ethernet.

I can manage it remotely from my phone.

This is my parents house, so it needs to be reliable and hands off for them....which is exactly what Google Wifi is

t. poorfag shitter.

Orbi absolutely dominates the mesh networking benchmarks for a reason, and has a massive range advantage over your outdated Linksys shit.

What's the best router with POE and static dhcp?

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Mikrotik

>static dhcp

I still have one of these in my scrap box.
What do?

>The orbi filesystem is read-only except for a small rw partition.
Literally kys
The fuck is that question, you can do whatever you want with dhcp you don't need any specific router
Yeah, either google wifi or diy, nice recommendations

Cisco ASR 9000 series

Unifi access points and pfsense router

Tell me more about these "mesh network" APs/routers, I'd seriously like some insights. I played around with multi-router setups in a big house back when Wireless G was the common thing. I basically found that phones and laptops wouldn't care if there were three routers with the same SSID. If I connected to the router in the basement then my phone would stick with it even if I went to the second floor (with a router) or the third floor (with another router) unless it actually lost the signal. If a device has close to zero signal and another signal at full strength next to it then it should consider using the stronger one.

Do these Orbi things have some kind of wireless controller built-in that would kick devices off or have things somehow changed?

an AP is not a Router.

Router -> Switch -> Accesspoint.

Hopping between AP's is known as "roaming"

WLC's typically control roaming.

Netgear is Hobbygrade

Samefag boosting this again because literally anything else is cheap crap or too crazy for home unless you're simulating a work network

Mikrotik RB962UiGS-5HacT2HnT

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>the fuck is that question
The router I have now doesn't let you assign an ip to a device and shifts them around every time it powers off.

this

>an AP is not a Router
Sure, 2% of APs sold are not routers. 98% of APs are a router and a switch and a accesspoint built into one device.

It's the WLC part I'm curious about and how it controls roaming. Does it tell APs to kick devices and so on? What I found when I tried with a bunch of off-the-shelf APs with the same SSID is that roaming just didn't happen.

This isnt a tidy solution, you would need a power source at each AP and something to host Pfsense on.

How many newfags that dont know the difference between layer 2 and layer 3 hardware are going to be able to administer this?

Unifi USG, POE switch and AP is much more appropriate for a homegamer.

Any router that can run full LEDE

What do you have? Can you install LEDE on it?

Should have added and an Enterprise switch

That's called a DHCP reservation, or statically assigning IPs. You can also assign a static IP on the device itself

The WLC not only keeps track of the client, but also can adjust the signal output of AP's to make sure they are not interfearing with one another.

These Netgear plug into the wall things dont work that way... they are just vomiting wifi.

The client wont "roam" because it will always send its packets to the place it originally connected until it can no longer do that, then it will try and reauthenticate with the SSID - which just so happens to be on the next floor etc.

You get a lot of channel interference and potentially worse connection speed because you are connected to the wrong place.

I saw UBNT had a mesh solution with some sort of controller, but I stay away from mesh solutions.

I wrote POE switch... Ubnt do a 60w switch that will run a couple of AP's without problem.. no need to get a CCNA

yep. anything mikrotik is good. all the other shit in this thread is normie-tier shit

if your devices are getting new IP's everytime you turn them on, this is regular DHCP..

You can however choose to allocate a range of IP's to be used, this is called a DHCP Scope.

If you are assigning one IP to a specific mac address, this is called a DHCP reservation as techfag 65065275▶ correctly pointed out.

From a quick search it seems there are a lot of exploits for mikrotik routers

nothing really all that recent though, and to be fair, you can even shut down Cisco Routers with packet flooding

cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-12508/product_id-23641/Mikrotik-Routeros.html

something home-made with i3 or celeron.
use ubiquiti ap for wifi trash.

what is running on the i3/celery ?

ASUS RT-68 with openWRT or the easily flashed asuswrt-merlin.

legit suggestion actually.

Netfag looks at OP's picture and is the only one of us to realize that an all-in-one solution is what is being requested.

>use a 7 year old router
ok

>from 2013
>7 years

Routers stopped progressing after AC was introduced anyway. The AC68 is perfect.

its been 43 years since 2013

Any Mikrotik Router

belkin n1 vision, forums say it simply doesn't support it.

Thanks, wasn't sure what to call it since every other router I've owned let you do it out of the box.

lede doesn't say it supports is.

something bsd or linux, that does not matter.

yeah I really wish they would sort out the 802.1x bug that makes it impossible for Ipads that have the wrong time to authenticate with the network.

using an ac66u with merlin still

is that bad?

You are welcome OP

>Router that fucks with ipads
Sold.

Apple airport if they cost half as much

it gets better, this is an enterprise problem haha.Homegame WIFI uses a PSK to authenticate.

My exact setup. Loving it. Just werks.

0/10 troll

doesn't even have MIMO

cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/routers/asr-9000-series-aggregation-services-routers/data_sheet_c78-501767.html

The Cisco ASR 9922 seems to be about one of the best routers around there. I don't know why you need the best so badly but who am I to judge. Don't forget to get some nice switches and AP's with it though.

dont overspend on 40 gig line cards though, you will have a hard time finding anything to plug into it....

Best firmware to flash to a cheap 2.4 Ghz router?

LEDE

PineAP :P

>asuswrt-merlin
I've never had luck with the stock/stock-ish firmwares for ASUS routers QoS-wise, both the "adaptive" QoS and traditional choke hard on bufferbloat tests, and sometimes cap my connection to half my up/down despite clearly putting the actual up/down I need. DD-WRT actually has the superior QoS in all cases I've tested, but it's a stability crapshoot in all other areas

Say I want to run a VPN on my router, but I also want to have my PC not go through said VPN because none of them can get close to my internet speeds. Is there a way to do this?

The only thing I've found so far that does what I want is this router asus.com/us/Networking/ROG-Rapture-GT-AC5300

pls no

Get some $30 to link and install lede on it

Why don't you like LEDE?

I failed trying to install it, but I think I should try again

same question as the OP, but I'm not looking for the best, rather the cheapest ac router that supports LEDE well enough.

Not sure what you're saying.

don't know but I was thinking of buying one from Buffalo with DD-WRT pre-installed. Good idea? I can't make a decision or purchase unless someone on Sup Forums tells me it's a good idea.

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>Netgear Orb
>let copy ubiquiti and cater to normal fag hipsters

I meant TP Link. Get a cheap Tp Link router and install Lede.
It's really easy, just download a file and upload it to the router using the routers' UI, you don't need to do anything fancy

>routers stopped progressing after AC

routers do not have AC YOU FUCK

YOU DO NOT EVEN KNOW WHAT A ROUTER IS

LEDE sucks for speeds, ie. no hardware NAT etc.
Only reason to install LEDE over stock is security and more control, which doesn't concern most people.

This. Mine runs on DC.

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AC Wave 2 wasn't a progression? Wireless AD doesn't exist?

WRT3200ACM easy.

i bought a tm-ac1900 refurb for 60 bucks and flashed it to a full rt-ac68u.
you can run ddwrt merlin tomato etc on it too.
not bad for the price

hostapd, its in your repos

DDWRT is garbage don't use it
Never had a problem speedwise with lede and nothing can beat a router with dnscrypt+unbound+adblock
Gotcha

Any good?

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MIMO doesn't really matter. Prove me wrong, give me just one example of a client device that supports it. It's obviously a nice feature to have on a AP if you're buying one. It just isn't useful unless you're connecting two devices supporting it to an AP that also supports it.

Why are you wining, most modern routers have a builtin AP as well as a switch. The d-link I use as a AP can act as a router, it marketed as a router and most people will call it a router.

Wireless AD does exist for some reason which is beyond me. 802.11ax sounds like something which will be great and I'm looking forward to that. But 802.11ad.. what's the point? You're limited to using that 60GHz standard on devices in the same room as the router and even then the signal's blocked if there's a curtain or a piece of paper in the way. I don't see the use-cases where a cable isn't preferable and more practical.

why are these pieces of shit so fucking expensive? they shouldn't cost more than 100 dollars IMO

You can get an 802.11n router for twenty bucks. Go on Newegg and sort by price. It'll be shit, of course, but all consumer routers are shit.

I'm looking for an ac router. I know n routers are cheap, but the ac ones are really expensive, for no reason IMO

TPLink makes fabulous routers. I get a full signal in every room in the house from this thing. Before I had repeaters and shit. Now, bam.

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needs different radio hardware for the 5GHz band, and is targeted at the (much smaller) high end of the market, because the low end of the market considers n to be plenty fast enough. If you were buying a CPU you'd be saying "God, why are Xeons and Threadrippers so expensive for no reason?!"

I had to return a tp link wireless card last month.

The router is the device you will use the most for the rest of your life, why would you pick a cheap one? Buy a good one and forget about it for 5-10 years

TP Link or ASUS when they're on sale is what you should look for. I got the RT-ACRH13 for $50 and it's been great. Was kind of worried that it would be shit due to the low RAM but the stock firmware is really efficient

Except I do, irrationality angry user.

Aren't you just a little bit concerned that it will manage to get off it's back and flip over and walk away?

Btw which LEDE packages do you guys reccommend besides dnscrypt and adblock?

i am in constant fear of that every day

>nu-males think that routers are combo boxes