Looking for new router for home network. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by chronically_crazy@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi all, I'm looking to upgrade my router from the default one that came from my ISP.

I don't need anything super fancy, just something with 4+ lan ports (1gbps is ok, 2.5gbps would be nicer), 1 WAN Port, Wifi-6 (802.11ax), and the ability to have an isolated IoT network (using a vlan for this would be nice).

Any suggestions? I'd like to keep the price down if possible. This is just for my home network.

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[-] Cyber@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

All of the suggestions here are strong.

I don't know what electricity costs in your region, but I consider that as part of my decisions. You can soon spend more on power than the device costs.

A router will be on 24/7 with a fairly consistent load (sure there's peaks, more in the day, etc...)

Personally, I'd recommend you try a few different options - an old x86 PC is terrible for power, but great to try out pfSense / OPNSense / DD-Wrt / OpenWrt / Tomato first... then from that pick your real hardware.

Personally, I've tried a few things over the years and the *WRTs in a single re-imaged old wifi-router is probably everyone's Step 1.

If you want new, low power, etc - have a look at this for inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM6Ivy_KLR4

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