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What wifi router do YOU have?

What wifi router do you currently run in home?

  • Asus

    Votes: 21 25.0%

  • TP-Link

    Votes: 11 13.1%

  • Google

    Votes: 1 1.2%

  • Amazon

    Votes: 3 3.6%

  • Unifi

    Votes: 25 29.8%

  • No idea, but it works

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • ISP provided

    Votes: 7 8.3%

  • Netgear

    Votes: 9 10.7%

  • other not listed enterprise/business class

    Votes: 17 20.2%
  • Total voters
    84
Valnar said:
Ruckus for an AP. I've never, not even once, had a problem.

Firewall is Palo Alto with pfSense as a backup.
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Dayuuummm...now that's a setup. :D Are you running the PA and PFSense in HA or just a manual backup?
 
SamirD said:
Who else you using for the isp and are you running failover or round robin or combining them for more speed? I love multi-wan setups. Take me back to 2004 when I did my first one. :D
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T-Mobile 5G home internet in failover.
For $20/month I have their backup internet plan. I also wanted something that stayed up during a power outage. My previous ISP, Astound did not battery back their equipment and I would lose connectivity whenever the power went out (which is frequent in the rural PNW). We haven't had an outage since I got xfinity fiber to know if they battery back their equipment. I have a full solar+64kw of battery setup with a Span smart panel, which needs internet connectivity for the app to manage individual breakers.
 
Valnar said:
Manual. No reason to keep electricity flowing through both. The Palo never goes down either.
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Makes sense for a home environment--especially with the uptimes the PA and the Rukus are capable of. :D That reminds me I have a PA unit I need to configure and put to work...
 
JustLong said:
T-Mobile 5G home internet in failover.
For $20/month I have their backup internet plan. I also wanted something that stayed up during a power outage. My previous ISP, Astound did not battery back their equipment and I would lose connectivity whenever the power went out (which is frequent in the rural PNW). We haven't had an outage since I got xfinity fiber to know if they battery back their equipment. I have a full solar+64kw of battery setup with a Span smart panel, which needs internet connectivity for the app to manage individual breakers.
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Nice! You know, I never thought about ISPs not having a battery backup when power going out. I actually do have that problem at one site and was thinking of adding att to that site since it is available, but maybe doing the same thing you did makes more sense since a power outage won't kill it.
 
SamirD said:
Nice! You know, I never thought about ISPs not having a battery backup when power going out. I actually do have that problem at one site and was thinking of adding att to that site since it is available, but maybe doing the same thing you did makes more sense since a power outage won't kill it.
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I'd be curious to talk to them about that. I believe its a FCC mandate to have a carrier network availability backed up for VoIP E911 calls. Especially if you're fiber or your buildout is subsidized by feds or state taxes. Microwave or dial not likely but I think copper DSL or cable would to. Its one of the reasons AT&T had to ship out battery backups when they first launched CallVantage VoIP at home. My history may be a bit hazy but I would be surprised its allowable to have major ISP infrastructure die knowingly during a utility failure.
 
That_Sound_Guy said:
I'd be curious to talk to them about that. I believe its a FCC mandate to have a carrier network availability backed up for VoIP E911 calls. Especially if you're fiber or your buildout is subsidized by feds or state taxes. Microwave or dial not likely but I think copper DSL or cable would to. Its one of the reasons AT&T had to ship out battery backups when they first launched CallVantage VoIP at home. My history may be a bit hazy but I would be surprised its allowable to have major ISP infrastructure die knowingly during a utility failure.
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I wonder if that's why they switched to offering heavily discounted wireless plans bundled with internet instead of VoIP phones.
 
That_Sound_Guy said:
I'd be curious to talk to them about that. I believe its a FCC mandate to have a carrier network availability backed up for VoIP E911 calls. Especially if you're fiber or your buildout is subsidized by feds or state taxes. Microwave or dial not likely but I think copper DSL or cable would to. Its one of the reasons AT&T had to ship out battery backups when they first launched CallVantage VoIP at home. My history may be a bit hazy but I would be surprised its allowable to have major ISP infrastructure die knowingly during a utility failure.
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Neither my fiber (CenturyLink/Quantum) nor cable (Comcast) have gone down during neighborhood power outages. As long as I could keep my equipment up (UPS which I manually switch over to plugging directly into the EV on a longer outage), I've always been able to stay up and running. I also have a T-Mobile trashcan running as a 3rd ISP as a just in case though.
 
That_Sound_Guy said:
My history may be a bit hazy but I would be surprised its allowable to have major ISP infrastructure die knowingly during a utility failure.
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At a site in CA, it happens all the time--power outage nearly 100% means ISP outage even though I've got 2hrs of UPS backup battery for the ISP equipment and our own.
 
The handful of times i've had a power outage at home, my fiber link remained active. I've got a small UPS powering my router, switch and ISP's equipment and a larger one on my main PC. Gives me plenty of up time to get in the garage and connect my power station to the transfer switch
 
What started as a quick research turned into a pretty interesting read seeing what you guys run.
 
Unifi Cloud Gateway Fiber with Ziply Fiber


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Hard line wan is ISP modem bridged to a pfsense build which goes to netgear switching and poe ap's - has been bulletproof for years. Only upgrades I am considering would be to a poe++ switch if I add cameras and the starlink (load balanced wan) to that power budget or if something better comes out in the prosumer/free/local management/community updates space.
 
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Small village in Greece.Nothing else working exept the 5G network.Given and installed by the provider.ZTE ZXHN H 3600P Indor + ZTE MC889 5G odu unit.
Before that the send me indoor only unit (ZTE MC888) but have some issues with voice channel and the replace it with this pair.So far all good.
 
Wonder what options will look like in the US with FCC banning the import of new consumer grade routers not manufactured in the US, which is all of them
 
Asking this question on [H] is going to get you a warped sense of reality. It's [H], and it's full of tech enthusiasts. RTX 5090s are perfectly normal things for people to have on [H]. So is business class network gear and a used dual socket server they got on eBay. Back in the day many of us built dual socket rigs, but the price has gone way up in the multi-core era. Meanwhile "ISP provided" is running at 7.2% in the poll as of this writing. That is not normal. If you polled the general population, I bet ISP provided would be #1.
 
Just bought a used Eero Max 7 system on ebay so will be upgrading to that system coming from Eero Pro6. Love the ease of setup on the Eeros. I know they are not that popular due to the paywall for additional features which kinda sucks but for the regular consumer like me who don't really tinker too much then it doesn't bother me too much as long as it works good. I wanted to get into the Unifi system but their ceiling AP's was a no go for me.
 
I'm new to WiFi 7 and got an Asus BE18000 from Best Buy, yesterday. Won't be able to set it up until next weekend.
 
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I've had good luck with my netgear rax120. Really good range and speed. I bought a netgear rs300 to replace it, which ended up performing worse, so going back to the rax120.
 
narsbars said:
Bought a set of 3 $15 to $20 Linksys 1301 units when they were on Woot and Amazon. Set them up in Mesh and solved all my problems including reaching to another house over 200 ft away.
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I got ahold of one of these on the same deal. Threw it in the closet and forgot about it until I switched to Spectrum. Spectrum has their router locked down to where you can't login through a web browser so you can only make changes through their phone app; and then you can really only change the SSID, password, and enable/disable the firewall. Ended up pulling the 1301 out of the closet, installed OpenWRT with HTTPS over DNS and Adblock, and it's been perfect. Wish I would have bought another 1 or 2 to mesh them together.
 
Hash_Immutable_1337x said:
I had previously 3 budget Asus routers in a mesh style set up.. But over time, they seem to act weird upon reboot.. when reestablishing themselves in a mesh ..
Always wanted to give one of these a try so I recently just set up a GL-iNet GL-BE9300
https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-be9300/
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How's it performing? The Asus BE18000 I recently bought needs to be restarted on an almost daily basis. Asus tech support ain't renowned for prompt service, so I'm still waiting for their reply. I'm just going to return it to BB and look for a different router.
 
Mad Maxx said:
Asus tech support ain't renowned for prompt service, so I'm still waiting for their reply. I'm just going to return it to BB and look for a different router.
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My RT-BE82U been solid for the ~2 months I've had it for so far, but again I'm using ISP provided eero Pro 7 as Wi-Fi AP - were your problems needing it to be restarted Wi-Fi related? Just wondering what I should look out for if anything if it's SW and not HW related etc.
 
kram182 said:
My RT-BE82U been solid for the ~2 months I've had it for so far, but again I'm using ISP provided eero Pro 7 as Wi-Fi AP - were your problems needing it to be restarted Wi-Fi related? Just wondering what I should look out for if anything if it's SW and not HW related etc.
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I think it's more likely a hardware problem with the router. Asus hasn't responded to my support inquiry so I can't be certain. Never had any trouble with my Google Nest router in over 3 years.
 
Mad Maxx said:
How's it performing? The Asus BE18000 I recently bought needs to be restarted on an almost daily basis. Asus tech support ain't renowned for prompt service, so I'm still waiting for their reply. I'm just going to return it to BB and look for a different router.
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I'll be able to provide more info, after a longer time of running it. My 3 days so far isn't a good sample size 🤣
So far so good though; has good coverage in my small rancher home. (Specs on the site claim 2000 ft^2 of coverage)
Main reason for wanting to try one of these is the VPN client capability baked in the firmware.. with ease of use to connect to the various VPN services (Mullvad, etc...)
 
Hash_Immutable_1337x said:
I'll be able to provide more info, after a longer time of running it. My 3 days so far isn't a good sample size 🤣
So far so good though; has good coverage in my small rancher home. (Specs on the site claim 2000 ft^2 of coverage)
Main reason for wanting to try one of these is the VPN client capability baked in the firmware.. with ease of use to connect to the various VPN services (Mullvad, etc...)
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Thanks for the info, mate! I like the GL-BE9300's $209 price at Amazon. The Asus cost $385. My house is a 2800 sq ft ranch-style, so the layout is similar to yours.
 
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