Routers in 2018:

What are some Sup Forums approved ones?

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pfsense/opnsense, or rolling your own from the Linux or BSD of your choice. these are the only acceptable choices. Little plastic consumer "home gateway" boxes are and have always been shit. Putting something like OpenWRT on them is a bandaid at best.

Ubiquiti EdgeRouter series is acceptable too.

I own EdgeRouter Lite for a few yeas now. Can recommend.

Bump, really interested in this

I got a shit TP Link router. Too bad it didn't even support ddwrt and openwrt. The forum mods are all cocky faggots. Fucking dickss, why don't they make something minimal for all routers

Can it run pfsense? opnsense? openwrt?

Microtik
Ubiquiti
Pfsense

No, it's got its own web and CLI UI. CLI is based on Vyatta, so anyone familiar with Cisco or Juniper routers will feel at home.

I personally find it superior to pfsense, which always annoyed me as fuck. Not because I lack knowledge (I used to run my own OpenBSD-based router before acquiring EdgeRouter), but because in pfsense something was always fucked, it was buggy, slow and limiting. Have no experience with openwrt.

>why don't they make something minimal for all routers
because consumer routers are a nightmare of semi-custom, undocumented, buggy hardware. Its worse than phones.

Never ever buy TP LINK TD-W8961N. Its utter crap. I want to destroy it under a rock but I don't have money to buy a decent one.

Does the edgerouter support vlan tagging? Or VID or whatever.

You don't have money to buy a decent rock?

Good router smashing rocks can be expansive, desu.

For yourself or for your retarded grandmother?

Built one yourself but OpenWRT x86 on it

maybe they're like curling stones and have to be made of special Scottish granite.

I got an ASUS RT-AC5300. It's a pretty good router and it was on sale. I wouldn't recommend the ROG Rapture AC5300 since it's incredibly overprice.

I wouldn't recommend getting an 802.11ad router since that isn't an officially supported Wi-Fi standard.

I've got a Netgear R7000 Nighthawk. I just switched from Tomato to OpenWRT last night but I'm trying to find out if there's a way to get the wireless working on it. It isn't officially supported by OpenWRT because the drivers are proprietary. Any advice?

wrt1900acs with ledeproject here, a beast

How does one actually build a router? I've never even heard of this.

Step 1) if you have to ask, don't bother moving to step 2

Yes

1. Get a main board with multiple PCI slots, case, CPU, RAM, small hard disk or SSD, PSU.
2. Install multiple network cards.
3. Install OS capable of routing packets and running network services like DHCP, DNS etc. (i.e. Linux or BSD). Technically you could use Windows or OS X but that would be totally, retarded even by Sup Forums standards.
4. Configure it to route as you need.
5. Fucking done.

Router is just a specialised computer, you brainlet.

I've done a lot of advanced techniques with my router, eg. port forwarding, mac filtering, firewalls and so on. I even hid my ssid so I cant be traced.

I can handle your trivial hardware mods.

what about creating an SSID and broadcasting it?

Can't say if serious or trolling.

On OpenBSD I've used hostapd, surely something similar exist for other BSDs. Linux got its own version too.

man.openbsd.org/hostapd

what antennas and such would you use?

gearbest.com/wireless-routers/pp_642436.html
supports LEDE/OpenWRT, though still in dev (some people have almost bricked it, some had stability problems, some had it running OK)
forum.lede-project.org/t/xiaomi-wifi-router-3g/5377

Sup Forums approved? Look at anything that runs openwrt or equivalent

I run this:
supermicro.com/products/system/Mini-ITX/SYS-E200-9B.cfm + 2.5" HDD(old SAMSUNG HM161GI) + 8GB RAM(16KTF1G64HZ-1G6E1)
with
Sophos UTM
Works well for 500/500 fiber.
Old Netgear r7000 router with latest DD-WRT for WiFi

Downside of Sophos UTM is max 50 unique IP addresses for free home license, paid license is expensive.
How is PfSense nowadays?

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That sounds smashingly diy, but it's going to consume a huge amount of power and won't run as reliably as any pre-built router with an open firmware.

High power usage: UPS shows 50W usage for
supermicro router,
netgear WiFI,
16 port switch,
fiber modem,
fingbox,
synology nas
Could be worse no?
Reliable: very much so, last month shows 33d, 9h, 1 minute uptime on Sophos UTM.

Anyone else using WireGuard?

>disabling SSID broadcast
>advanced

pick one. also finding hidden networks is easy as shit

WPA2 Enterprise or go home.

anything I can put dd-wrt on

The routers you think of are just small stripped-down computers with router software preinstalled,a bunch of ports, and a wireless radio. It's possible to achieve this capability with normal computers

I have a netgear nighthawk

>SSID BROADCAST: [ ] enabled [ x ] disabled

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>Asking Sup Forums for advice
Those days are over pal. Unironically go to plebbit

What are the advantages of this? Its not any cheaper

All these replies and literally noone mentioned zyxel yet?

>the absolute state of Sup Forums

ZyXel has been and still is the second best network device manufacturer after cisco.

Their consumer-grade devices are literally everything you might need without any GAMER features. All of the Keenetic lineup is cheap as fuck too.

Literally nothing to talk about here.

Serious question: can you do it the other way round? If a router is a computer, with RAM, flash memory and a CPU does it mean I can install an os on it and use it for something?

it already is running some shitty version of linux. I dont see why cant you .

You need to find a way to load ur os onto the flash memory tho. Its likely soldered to the PCB with no obvious way to 'flash' it.

Not the guy you were asking the question to tho.But eh,i was around

you realize you dont have to point out each reply when referencing them, right?

Why would I want that if I have an APU2C2?

Who cares what Sup Forums approves of, as long as it works.

I like to suggest the PC Engines APU2 to people interested in running a custom home router. Might be a bit pricey, but it is a nice board if your internet connection is slower than 1 Gbps.

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I've seen people do that with theirs. NetBSD or Linux projects with USB display adapters.

It makes you a l33t haxorus

And where I'm going to find an ADSL modem?

There are plenty. I've got some shitty TP-Link that can both be used as plain ADSL modem and optionally a router. Although router functionality is atrocious, so obviously I treat it as plain modem. It basically bridges ADSL to Ethernet, so that you can use PPPoE client on your own router.

>TD-W8961N

It's a DSL modem router combo....of course it sucks you dumbass.

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Nighthawk
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Zyxel is literal garbage.

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What about the all-in-one routers from AVM? I never see discussion about the fritz thingies in these threads, why is that?
I kind of like that I only need one device to handle anything, from voip, nas, smart home bullshit, vpn, fax, mesh routing and all that shit. It would literally be a downgrade if I would buy a standalone router or a custom pc that only does one thing with limited open source firmware.

>some people have almost bricked it, some had stability problems

Wow, this really makes me want to buy it!

> why is that

Because they don't really bother to expand beyond DACH?

>DACH


You mean GAS, brudi. Gas, Brudi.

GNU Assembler?

They sell international versions of the hardware what more do they need to do? I don't think they would actively stop walmart from carrying them on the shelves. It's not like they do any advertising over here either. You just know you should buy from them if you want good all-in-one solutions.

I wish there was more interest from the international community to provide additional software for it like kdeconnect does for android. The only thing we have is a java program written by a fat sperg and a PHP program to deal with phone functionality via command line.

NETGEAR R6700 is the only router I have ever had issues with ever. stupid thing kept deadlocking whenever a lanport woke up, never touching their routers again.

I have a TP-LINK router with the exact same design but different model

I want to go full meme and build a router out of a mini PC and Debian. I know I will use hostapd but what should I do about the antenna? Which card and will the reception be good?

Is there an ARM board that is ready to become a router and needs only an OS?

They also don't appear to actively push walmart for stocking them?
I know from a bunch of people that they could literally not buy them outside of Germany and they had to import them.
And they do advertise, you mostly don't notice because ad blockers and not reading c't maybe?

>I have a TP-LINK router with the exact same design

stop being cheap

>this thread again
IPFire

Other routers cannot comply, building in progress.

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Just get the ASUS with the stuff you want.

>Sup Forums approved
Approved by anonymous 12-year olds who can't understand the text of the reviews they are going to copy and paste in reply?

Get refurbished T-Mobile ac1900 from Amazon for 50 bucks

Actually is Asus ac68u with garbage firmware, flash Asus firmware or openwrt, dust hands, call it a day

I've just setup a Xiaomi Router 3G. Bought it becuase an user told me here. It was easy but took a few steps to install openwrt on it. It works nice so far. 40$, 2,4 and 5ghz works, 256 MB RAM, 128 MB NAND.

Reminder that mikrotik is the only real answer posted in this thread, everything else is generic gamer/consumer grade trash

So shitposting aside, what's wrong with this router?
My roommates and I use one.

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Looks fine but try dusting it you pig. And make sure the firmware is updated.

>try dusting it you pig.
I only keep my room clean.
Anything else is fair game.

I've been longing for one of these to run OpenWrt on. What software are you running on yours? please share your experiences?

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I run OPNsense from an mSATA SSD on mine. It's been running since mid 2016 and it's been stable so far. Software updates with OPNsense can be a bit fiddly (checking for updates sometimes fails), but that's an issue with OPNsense. The board itself have been working out great for me. To install anything based on FreeBSD (back then), I had to boot from a USB stick connected to the internal USB 2.0 header. The rear facing USB 3.0 connectors didn't work for FreeBSD (OPNsense), but booting from the USB 3.0 ports might work properly now.

I recommend that you have a computer with a serial port or a USB adapter in case you mess up the firewall or soemthing and cannot access it over SSH or HTTPS anymore.

I read some article where a dude built his own and Pepsi Challenged bunch of big dick routers. He kicked all their asses for way less dough. Home brew or gtfo.

The only answer is an ordinary computer running an ordinary operating system of your choice and set up to do routing. No need to get a proprietary device with locked-down software for this kind of thing.

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did you equip your APU2 with a radio for wifi as well, or do you use a separate access point?

er-x + unifi wap of some sort, cheap and incredibly effective

I just run LEDE on some WRT1900AC

it works fine I guess. not sure what value it has though. storage is pretty much non-existent. literally more system memory.

was thinking of running some basic services like tinc and syncthing some stuff onto a flashdrive so i can turn my desktop off when I'm not using it. anyone actually run services on their routers?

this is what networking retards believe.

checked, but how do I connect it to 4g?

Allow me to interject you you seem to be under the false impression that router/ac/switch is a router, or as I have come to call them combo shit boxes. You see you get jewed by WiFi Jew making you believe you need to buy. A shit box in order to get the latest meme WiFi, and thus you are given a underperforming router,that must also perform the duty of an access point
>not a router
>retard

WRT1200AC WRT3200ACM
OpenWRT/LEDE

Should be fine for gigabit too. Of course I'm using mine with a WiFi card like a baka.

does that router support bittorrent or use as a NAS? i want to get a neo-wrt just because i had the old one...

What are the benefits over regular wpa2?
I think I tried to enable it once and looked super complicated

>ARM board that is ready to become a router and needs only an OS?
Banana PI

>have fun with garbage network performance

I recently bought a Netgear Orbi mesh network router. It is a tri-band device that includes a satellite signal broadcaster. It was very expensive and i hate the way its styled like an apple product, but i have to say its the only device that has been able to give me a strong signal throughout my entire home. This place is old and the walls must be super dense because nothing penetrates. Strategic placement of the satellite has boosted bandwidth in parts of my house by 2000%, not even exaggerating.