spaceelf Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 As much as I like asus routers I wouldn't buy one right now. There is a known issue with all of the firmware for the routers that asus has yet to fix. http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/01/got-an-asus-router-someone-on-your-network-can-probably-hack-it/ According to the firmware changelogs they've fixed it on each of mine (N56U and N12-D1) before I even knew about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
binaryzero Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 No its a "network" its location is little point to the conversation at hand. Why should your "home" network suck ass when good hardware with good feature sets can be had for "home" budget?? You may be willing to have a ###### ass setup, some of us are not. How many devices does your typical home have these days? I have 15 some wifi devices alone.. Spread all over the home, should the AP sit under my desk where the cable modem is - or should the AP be properly placed to cover the house? With 15 some devices, not counting guest devices that come over - should the wifi be some ###### soho router or a decent AP?? Your typical home is streaming video/audio to multiple devices. LOL!!! I love your enthusiasm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aergan Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Well I have not used a soho router in YEARS.. I could never go back to such limit power.. Be like expecting someone who has been driving nothing but top of the line Ferrari's for last 10 years and say here you go this smart car is the same thing.. Gets you from point a to b.. This would prob be the min I would suggest for a router.. http://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-lite/ AS to your OCD, its called cable managment. With a true AP that you mount in your ceiling there would be no wires. Switch - I would say this. http://www.amazon.com/Cisco-SG300-10-10-port-Gigabit-SRW2008-K9-NA/dp/B0041ORN6U AP I would go with http://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap/ be it the pro or normal one if budget. Sorry but this would be a min setup that I would do.. If your not going to go with this level of hardware then go to the computer store - pickup one that says gig on it and there you go.. Works! Without knowing what your clients wifi is - have no idea what to suggest to be honest, do you have 5ghz clients? Do you have AC.. What do you have that you think you need gig.. Not going to do you any good if you don't have gig hardwired clients? How many wifi clients do you have? How big is your house? What is the make up of the walls, do you have multiple floors? Your under $400 for that setup btw.. Whats current top of the line soho cost you ~ $200 http://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-Nighthawk-AC1900-Gigabit-Router/dp/B00F0DD0I6 Here you go $300 but without knowing what your clients are?? How many of them? http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KWHMR6G/ref=psdc_300189_t1_B00F0DD0I6 Friend of mine as work is currently a proud owner of an EdgeMax. It's quite impressive. Personally I managed to break another virtual Zentyal instance last night (though no direct fault of mine) on my home server & now i'm happily on pfSense. Today I set up a HE IPv6 tunnel. Tomorrow I'm going to look at VLANs to offer guest WiFi access from one of my SOHO Netgear's running DD-WRT (as an AP). Flexibility with not being locked down to badly implemented solution is great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted February 10, 2015 MVC Share Posted February 10, 2015 The HE stuff is fun, get yourself a /48 and then you can have multiple /64 segments Aergan 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted February 18, 2015 MVC Share Posted February 18, 2015 Here let me fix that for you -> For beginners and users that need basic wifi connectivity, the Asus RT-AC68U Dual-band Wireless-AC1900 Gigabit Router performs well compared to similar other toys sold , will not fall apart when touched, and bounty of buttons and interfaces to amaze your non technical friends on the number of menus they can design that don't really do anything of value. Aergan 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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