Yet Another Router Recommendation Request

[arty]

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!

 

[arty]

Thanks for the various recommendations.

Draytek 2862ac (modem) or 2927ac (no built-in modem), will do everything you're after whilst being solid as a rock.

I remember setting up a couple of Drayteks in a small office years ago. They were extremely solid, though I found their web UI a bit clunky. In general they managed really well right up until we moved premises and scaled up, so I have fond memories of them and will seriously consider these. Thanks

Ive got a UDM and its massive improvement over my ISP supplied router

Wifi is good and it handles PoPPE

I was looking at the UDM, but reports of fan noise, flaky software and just general wonkiness put me off a bit, particularly as they're fairly pricey at £300+. Happy to be persuaded otherwise.

Back to the edgerouter x for me.
Been superb so far.

This is more the sort of thing I was after, but I would need a separate AP.

This has been asked numerous times over the past few days. You're almost always going to be better off by running dedicated wireless devices in a central location, such as a Access Point mounted centrally on your landing upstairs.

I'm not that concerned about wireless network performance, as I don't do anything important on it currently, but if I had some way of feeding a network (PoE) cable to the ceiling upstairs, I'd consider it. It probably isn't necessary for my little house, though

I will certainly look at all of the options mentioned so far, but I'm also curious about MikroTik. Does anyone have any opinions on these? Are their SOHO routers worth a look? I'd also be interested in knowing of any options for software routers; I know Raspberry Pis don't have enough network ports, but are there any similarly compact options I could look at in tandem with an AP?