I don’t think I could ever go back to an off the shelf router anymore. Years ago I set up a pc with pfsense, hooked that up to a switch for my wired devices plus one to the wireless access point I bought from ubiquiti. Almost zero issues after setting it up, plus it’s much more flexible in that if my wireless dies, my wired devices still work. Or a component in the PC dies, I can just replace the part instead of the whole router. Takes some networking knowledge but really nothing you can’t learn from googling.
… with every replaced part and yearly power consumption costing as much as a new conventional low-power router? If the only thing it does is routing packets and you don’t run any heavy services on it, there are low-power, compact and cheap openwrt routers out there.
I don’t think I could ever go back to an off the shelf router anymore. Years ago I set up a pc with pfsense, hooked that up to a switch for my wired devices plus one to the wireless access point I bought from ubiquiti. Almost zero issues after setting it up, plus it’s much more flexible in that if my wireless dies, my wired devices still work. Or a component in the PC dies, I can just replace the part instead of the whole router. Takes some networking knowledge but really nothing you can’t learn from googling.
… with every replaced part and yearly power consumption costing as much as a new conventional low-power router? If the only thing it does is routing packets and you don’t run any heavy services on it, there are low-power, compact and cheap openwrt routers out there.
I don’t want openwrt