[ale] Strong home wireless router?

[Jim Kinney]

+1 on the ubiquity gear. Good commercial quality at nearly home user
pricing.


On Thu, Jun 1, 2023, 12:04 PM DJPfulio--- via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

>
> > On 5/31/23 5:38 AM, Leam Hall via Ale wrote:
> >> Hey all, any suggestions on a strong home wireless router? Our
> >> internet will come in through the provider's modem, but I don't
> >> want to use their wifi. I have an ASUS RT-ACRH18, but am not sure
> >> how secure it is.
> >>
>
> Ubiquiti stuff is good, if you can get passed some "features" that use a
> central Java-based server for configuration.  The last one I used had an
> android app to configure and update the firmware.  The coverage provided
> exceeded all my other wifi-routers.
>
> I'm not in the wifi-AP market, so I don't know the current ubiquiti
> models. They would be on my very short list.
>
> I prefer keeping routing separate from wifi APs.  My router HW is coming
> up on 10 yrs old. It runs opnsense. I don't have any plans to replace it.
> For WIFI, the standards/capabilities seem to change drastically every 5
> yrs, so swapping in a newer wifi AP isn't a big deal and doesn't require
> major changes to the router.
>
> The best location for a wifi-AP is seldom the ideal location for a router.
> That's another consideration.
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