I have been using this for years and cannot recommend it enough. It’s literally the perfect home router in my opinion. Highly customizable, affordable, small, no gimped features “for ease of use” or whatever bs and extremely stable - I have never once had to touch it or reboot it after setting it up, which is more than I can say for any other router. The only downside is that you do have supply an AP separately.
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Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Surprised to see no mention of the Edgerouter X in this thread so far.
Honestly, if you’re looking for a simple, highly customizable router that comes with its own hardware, and don’t mind supplying a separate access point, you really can do a lot worse than the ERX. They’re small, highly affordable, use very little power, and it’s all just Debian under the hood so you can do an astonishing amount with them.
polyp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
droans@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s a great little machine. The downside, though, is that it’s not that powerful at all. With hardware offload enabled and features like QoS turned off, you’ll get about ~600mbps of max total bandwidth shared between up/down.
For most people that shouldn’t be an issue, though.
crimsdings@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Can confirm - I am on an edgerouter x for years now - you can do anything you want with it. It’s not casual friendly.
subtle_inquisitor@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Yeah this is what I’ve been running for the last few years. Incredibly stable and does everything that you want for a small network. Even has poe passthrough if your AP supports that