• thelittleblackbird@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 year

    Fritzbox boxes.

    They tick all the checkboxes

    • good standards support (including dect protocol if you want to have an ip phone or even iot protocols)
    • fast wifi speeds
    • cheap (at least for the second hand in ebay)
    • super stable, never had a problem with them in 5 years or more
    • fast roaming support out of the box

    It is a well known brand in Germany but pretty unknown outside that country. Honestly it is the best bang for buck I was able to get.

    Honestly, I would spend 10 minutes checking on them

    • Elvith Ma'for@feddit.orgEnglish
      1 year

      I really like them but they do have two downsides for “more advanced” users (or at least for me) - it is a home device as after all.

      1. No support for VLAN or VLAN tagging - you can set up you WiFi and a guest WiFi. You can also map the guest network to an Ethernet port. But that’s about it.
      2. There is no way to change the DNS suffix (*. fritz.box) to another value - I do own a domain that I use for the local services on my home server, etc. which then allows for Let’s Encrypt certificates, but I cannot use it “out of the box”.

      If you’re an advanced user, there’s plenty of ways around that, though. I just wished that these two thing were to exist in the firmware to have less work with my home infrastructure.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
    1 year

    I used to use R7800s. Then switched to UAP AC Pro / U6 Pro. Today just tested the OpenWrt One.

    • The R7800 (on OpenWrt) is superb, fast, reliable. Can’t say anything bad about it. One of the most successful wireless platforms I’ve used. Probably the best implementation of this chipset too.
    • The UAP AC Pro / U6 Pro perform better than the R7800. They have significantly better radio performance. The range is longer, coverage is uniform, performance is more consistent within the covered area. Adding a local Unifi controller (can be done in Docker) adds some nice wireless and management features like band steering. They don’t work well for bridging / mesh though. I had to run a bridge at some point and a set of Unifi had significant latency spikes, making it bad for gaming and other low-latency applications. A R7800-to-R7800 wireless bridge in the same application was superb with consistently low latency. Unifi can be had for cheaper second hand. Lots of corpos have them and old units get dumped upon upgrades.
    • The OpenWrt One, through my very limited testing shows great performance in good radio conditions. Once you put some obstacles for the signal, performance degrades much quicker than Unifi U6 Pro. In a particular test where the Unifi achieved 50Mbps, the OpenWrt One did 1.5Mbps. I haven’t compared it to an R7800. I don’t know if it would perform any better with different antennas.

    Before that I’ve used R7000, WZR-300HP, WL-500g, WRT54G/L, among others, but none of these are relevant today. :D

  • Pax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 year

    Went all in with UniFi some time back. No regrets.

    Currently running a few U6s. No real motivation to upgrade to U7s.

  • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
    1 year

    2nd hand Ruckus.

    They’re decent quality that you’d see in a commercial / enterprise setting (so PoE), but Ruckus also have their “Unleashed” firmware which removes the need for a WLC.

    I have 2 in a mesh at home and easily support many IoT devices, phones, laptops, etc on multiple SSIDs

    • agile_squirrel@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1 year

      Used 2nd hand sounds great, but the price range online is huge. Which units would you recommend and about how much should I expect to pay for them?

      • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
        1 year

        I’m using R600 - these are now EOL, so their price should be more reasonable (ie <60 £/$/€) - up to you if you want / need to pay a little more for someone to have flashed Unleashed onto it.

        But definitely check there’s a download of Ruckus Unleashed for the model you want.

        • agile_squirrel@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1 year

          Thanks. That’s helpful. I decided to get an R720 I found on Ebay for $60. I’m not sure if it was a good choice but I’m excited to try it out!

          • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
            1 year

            That looks like a better choice if you have multiple clients because of the Wave2 and 4x4, so, yes, should be good… Something I might look at in the future. Enjoy.

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1 year

    I use the Unifi access points. They work well and are fairly inexpensive. The management software can change settings on all of them at once, which is really handy if you have several.

      • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1 year

        The dream router is an excellent base to build upon. It provides all the normal functions (ethernet, wifi, router etc) as well as hosting the control software.

        Unifi’s real power is when you expand it. The access points make extending WiFi coverage easy. You dont even need a wired link. It will link over WiFi, either as a primary or as a fall back. The flex mini is also quite handy. It’s a little poe powered switch. I have a couple tucked away providing extra ports around the house.

        With my setup, I have detailed monitoring and control down to the port or wifi device. I can monitor and control things in detail, or get a high level view of my network.

      • AustralianSimon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1 year

        The U6LR is amazing but overkill. I use one to cover the house and hdnano to mesh with a uap-ac in an external building.

        I use a MoCo bridge and two U6LRs to cover 1km of farmland.