Ask HN: What is your home networking setup?

Re:Ask HN: What is your home networking setup? by rcarmo on Thursday January 20, 2022 @09:30AM (#30009338)

Since our apartment has a weird u-shaped topology I have unmanaged gigabit switches and four Airport Extremes for Wi-Fi (which I got off eBay for standardization, since they’re not being built anymore). Fiber comes into the house and the ISP router gives me 4x1Gb ports where I plug in my “spoke”switches.

2 IPTV set top boxes, a handful of Macs, too many Raspberry Pi’s and ARM dev boards, a NAS, my two Windows work machines, everything hanging off Gigabit or 802.11n.

Zero Wi-Fi meshing, zero remote management, zero hassles.

In fact, I’m starting to worry what I’ll replace this with, since I can’t really find Wi-Fi gear that doesn’t try to provide “added value” by forcing me to use some kind of cloud service.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: What is your home networking setup? by sllewe on Thursday January 20, 2022 @09:55AM (#30009622)

Was in the same predicament - aging Wifi APs with no desire for a Cloud Managed "Prosumer" solution.

Ended up going with a handful of Ruckus r610 used off of Ebay. When re-flashed with the "unleashed" firmware, configures one to act as a local controller for the rest. I've been very happy with it so far.

[ Parent | on HN ]