I'm interested in recommendations for a new router. I'm a software developer working from home, and my current Asus AC66 is increasingly flaky. Requirements:
- price up to £300, though I'd prefer to spend less
- good quality; I've dabbled with the usual home networking fare of Linksys / Netgear / D-Link etc. before and found them all pretty poor.
- PPPoE or VDSL support (I have 80/20 FTTC, currently with an Openreach modem)
- decent enough wifi support, but nothing too crazy as I only live in a small house. I have probably 4-5 wireless devices at most.
- good IPv6 support
I know my way around networking as my day job involves software architecture, AWS, Linux etc. but I kind of want something which is just going to work, and be really solid. Right now I have a Synology NAS, a couple of Raspberry Pis and a couple of extremely cheap and nasty TP-Link switches hanging off my router, so I'm not averse to replacing the whole network infrastructure I have, because I think it's pretty crap
I don't have lots of physical space (no server cabinet, alas!) so I'd prefer fairly neat / compact ideas. Never used any Ubiquiti stuff but a dev friend of mine has recommended it. I like CLI stuff and I'm interested in learning more about IPv6, with which I have little experience, so am not averse to some fairly low-level suggestions if it's worth considering.
Thanks for reading yet another router thread!
- price up to £300, though I'd prefer to spend less
- good quality; I've dabbled with the usual home networking fare of Linksys / Netgear / D-Link etc. before and found them all pretty poor.
- PPPoE or VDSL support (I have 80/20 FTTC, currently with an Openreach modem)
- decent enough wifi support, but nothing too crazy as I only live in a small house. I have probably 4-5 wireless devices at most.
- good IPv6 support
I know my way around networking as my day job involves software architecture, AWS, Linux etc. but I kind of want something which is just going to work, and be really solid. Right now I have a Synology NAS, a couple of Raspberry Pis and a couple of extremely cheap and nasty TP-Link switches hanging off my router, so I'm not averse to replacing the whole network infrastructure I have, because I think it's pretty crap
I don't have lots of physical space (no server cabinet, alas!) so I'd prefer fairly neat / compact ideas. Never used any Ubiquiti stuff but a dev friend of mine has recommended it. I like CLI stuff and I'm interested in learning more about IPv6, with which I have little experience, so am not averse to some fairly low-level suggestions if it's worth considering.
Thanks for reading yet another router thread!