I’m gonna be moving into a new place soon and I’ll be setting up the Internet there. I want to experiment with setting up a local network with static IPs just for learning and fun, so I want my own router. I don’t want something hard to use because other people will be using the internet from it too. I don’t really know what the router market looks like, and I don’t want to support Reddit, so I’m asking here.
Ideally, this router would:
- Be under $150 (but I might be willing to go a bit higher)
- Be easily purchasable (no AliExpress specials)
- Not sell data to corporations
- Have a long life, ideally through easily set-up open source firmware but reputable proprietary is fine
- Have good enough antennas to propagate signal across a small house
- Support up to 500Mb/s sustained speeds
What do you think? Thank you for your help!
You want the gl inet brume 2 and the gli inet beryl ax.
The router is the brume. Access point is the beryl ax (which can also be a router in its own right if you wanted).
Both dont share data. Both are 100% open source. You can replace the access point with the wifj 7 version at a later date without changing router settings. Should be able to get them both for 140 total. Available on amazon. Mine have been going for 3 years solid. Easily meets your speed requirements.
This is the open source and much cheaper equivalent to Unifi, and its fantastic