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[Request] Internet Routers (aussie.zone)
submitted 2 days ago by 18107@aussie.zone to c/buyitforlife@slrpnk.net
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Request: I'm looking for something with high reliability rather than high speed. It needs to support 30+ devices.

Additional information: My house is about 30m (100ft) long, and the internet comes in by ethernet at one end of it. I'm happy to use a Wi-Fi extender if needed.

Context: I've been having issues with both my current and previous routers. Devices are randomly unable to communicate over the network for several seconds at a time. Both ethernet and Wi-Fi are affected.
I live in Australia, so even the slowest router should be more than fast enough.
I have a large number of automated devices that need to stay connected at all times - even 5 second network dropouts are difficult to deal with. Internet dropouts are handled gracefully.

Any suggestions are gratefully received.

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[โ€“] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you want something cheaper ive been running an Ubiquiti Edgerouter X pretty much non stop problem free for about 5-6 years now.

[โ€“] deltapi@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

The EdgeRouter X is a great piece of kit, but also getting harder to acquire, and it's unclear what Ubiquiti's roadmap is for support. I installed one in my in-laws about 4 years ago, and my brother's house about 5 years ago. Both trucking along strong. My in-laws use a TPLink omada 245 AP in standalone mode. My brother has 2, a 225 and a 245, plus a controller so that AP roaming and band steering work.

I also have a pair of omada APs, one at each end of the house, but for a router I use a HP ProDesk 600G1 DM, modified to handle an extra Ethernet jack via the m.2 e-key slot. It runs Opnsense, but I did also run Sophos XG on it for about a year.

Both are good but I'm a tinkerer so I switched to Opnsense