Re:The low-down on home routers – how to buy, what to avoid
by sliken on Saturday May 25, 2019 @04:34AM
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I have an Ubiquiti ER-6P. I'm pretty pleased with it. The newest OS is based on Debian stretch and it has generous ram, cpu, and storage (for a router).
The web gui is pretty nice, I can ssh (openssh not dropbear) into it (even with a ssh key), and there's a command line available if I need it. The security updates come out often, Ubiquiti seem responsive to the community, and the upgrade procedure is sane.
Ubiquiti allow backing up the entire state of the router, in a human friendly configuration format that's easy to hand edit.
They offer full IPv6, radvd, and sanely handling a IPV6 /60 from Comcast and providing each router port with it's own /64. Simple stuff I know, but often missing in home routers. Similar was quite complex or broken on DDwrt and OpenWRT, in a previous iteration of home router I actually had to steal pieces for both to get things working with IPv6. The main problem is there was an issue with a compatible IPv6 dhcp client to accept the /60 from Comcast. Additionally I had to use a binary blob to get some of the most of my previous Asus router.
I've built a router from scratch before, but the Ubiquiti hardware is silent, well done, and their debian based OS makes all the normal router stuff easy. And my favorite feature is the ability to use apt for package management.
I've never had a crash, currently it's been up only 65 days because of a power outage.
The web gui is pretty nice, I can ssh (openssh not dropbear) into it (even with a ssh key), and there's a command line available if I need it. The security updates come out often, Ubiquiti seem responsive to the community, and the upgrade procedure is sane.
Ubiquiti allow backing up the entire state of the router, in a human friendly configuration format that's easy to hand edit.
They offer full IPv6, radvd, and sanely handling a IPV6 /60 from Comcast and providing each router port with it's own /64. Simple stuff I know, but often missing in home routers. Similar was quite complex or broken on DDwrt and OpenWRT, in a previous iteration of home router I actually had to steal pieces for both to get things working with IPv6. The main problem is there was an issue with a compatible IPv6 dhcp client to accept the /60 from Comcast. Additionally I had to use a binary blob to get some of the most of my previous Asus router.
I've built a router from scratch before, but the Ubiquiti hardware is silent, well done, and their debian based OS makes all the normal router stuff easy. And my favorite feature is the ability to use apt for package management.
I've never had a crash, currently it's been up only 65 days because of a power outage.