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!
I love MikroTik, but I don’t think it meets OP’s needs. RouterOS isn’t beginner friendly.
I second this.
Yep. Very powerful and cost effective routers. Way too easy to screw something up if you don’t know what you’re doing.
Yeah
Quickset is ok.
I killed my access to the web config with a bad NAT rule. The configuration software still connected and I fixed it that way.
10/10 nerd experience
Also i dont believe its open source as requested. Although openwrt can be flashed on some models