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I'll take this opportunity to ask the community, what is a recommend router? It's going to be me and my roommate only (with friends and family over) and I would like to get something secure and also reliable (and preferably on the cheaper side) Any suggestions? I believe we have Cox if that is any factor....
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You can get the EdgeRouter X for ~$50 and that will scale to symmetric gigabit connections, if your needs are simple (ie. you're just doing basic routing & firewalling, not trying to do traffic shaping, etc). Budget AP option then is a UAP-AC-Lite which you can buy off Amazon for ~$80, bringing your total to $130 all said and done. That's cheaper than most all-in-one routers, and while you won't get the best single-c…
I'm ashamed by this Networking 101 question, but what prevents you from connecting the UAP-AC-Lite directly to the ISP's device? (Assuming you don't want a physical ethernet connection at all). Is it for DHCP and assigning IPs to the clients?
Usually the ISP router just sucks at wifi, but I have seen ISP routers which have only 100mbit/s uplink ports when the internet connection is higher. In that case you'd want a custom router also. Or if they ship some router with some features you dislike that you can't disable (like public hotspots, unpatchable insecure config interfaces, etc.)
I'll take this opportunity to ask the community, what is a recommend router? It's going to be me and my roommate only (with friends and family over) and I would like to get something secure and also reliable (and preferably on the cheaper side) Any suggestions? I believe we have Cox if that is any factor....
I'll take this opportunity to ask the community, what is a recommend router? It's going to be me and my roommate only (with friends and family over) and I would like to get something secure and also reliable (and preferably on the cheaper side) Any suggestions? I believe we have Cox if that is any factor....
I'd like explore making a small ecosystem of open security plugins built on top of OpenWrt. The goal is to make firewalling and controlling network traffic really easy. The UI should be so easy a parent could perform difficult tasks such as limiting an iot devices traffic to local net or maybe just one ip using just an app. Or detecting unusual patterns of traffic from a device or IP addresses. The apis exist I can't…
I'd like explore making a small ecosystem of open security plugins built on top of OpenWrt. The goal is to make firewalling and controlling network traffic really easy. The UI should be so easy a parent could perform difficult tasks such as limiting an iot devices traffic to local net or maybe just one ip using just an app. Or detecting unusual patterns of traffic from a device or IP addresses. The apis exist I can't…
It seems obvious that this should be developed, but to take it a step further it would be great if consumers could purchase something that gave them access to these plugins without needing to know how to setup OpenWRT. This will be challenging because most ISPs provide the router and firmware for the majority of their customers.
Another is to limit a device to communicate to a specific country. Easy enough however a possible performance issue.
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(I'm a Googler, opinions are my own). I think this is one of the awesome things about Google Wifi (aka: OnHub). It's fully managed from a phone app (via "the cloud"), so you get the authentication tied to your gmail account. It's also based on ChromeOs (chromebook OS), and follows a similar auto-update that Chromebooks get. So you are always running the latest firmware. (There are obviously downsides to Google Wifi,…
While your points are valid, it is a bit disconcerting to have the world's largest data monetizer watch all of a home's traffic. Google's promised benevolence may be temporary
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> That's cheaper than most all-in-one routers, It really isn't. There are plenty of consumer router+AP combos in the $75-90 range that offer equal or better performance to the ER-X + UAP-AC-Lite combination.
Such as ...?
I've been looking for an excuse to go down the Ubiquiti route, but I really can't find one.
I'll take this opportunity to ask the community, what is a recommend router? It's going to be me and my roommate only (with friends and family over) and I would like to get something secure and also reliable (and preferably on the cheaper side) Any suggestions? I believe we have Cox if that is any factor....
The way I do things, is to treat the cable modem as already compromised and connect it to a router 100% under my control (running Linux) that will perform additional firewalling and/or act as a wireless AP. I will never let a border device have any sort of direct access into my internal network. There is no point in spending lots of time & effort trying to secure half-baked half-open devices that are not under my ful…
Together with the fact, that you are getting a single /64, it means that you cannot place another router behind their router.
(And for IPv4 part of the DS-Lite, no, they don't support PCP).