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[โ€“] Nommer@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

... 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.

[โ€“] Nommer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

I don't want openwrt