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  1. theramenman

    Question about dedicated routers/pfsense boxes and their uses cases

    The RB850Gx2 for about $100 from an authorized reseller seems like an exceedingly good deal, especially as it seems capable of handling my connection if I understood correctly what you guys said. Since for now it seems to be all that I need and it falls within my meager budget of about $200...
  2. theramenman

    Question about dedicated routers/pfsense boxes and their uses cases

    Wow, that clarifies a lot. Thanks sfx. Getting back to the throughput problem, is there a good way in general of finding out if a router is good enough for my needs? For example I was looking at the RB2011iL-IN since it seems to offer a decent number of ports, and RouterOS seems to have some...
  3. theramenman

    Question about dedicated routers/pfsense boxes and their uses cases

    Very interesting, thank you for all the info. Just one quick question: why do you disregard hardware acceleration? Is it only useful in very specific/limited use cases? And as far as I'm aware, my ISP doesn't use PPPOE or vlan. As for ASUS, yeah, I previously had an AC68U and it was a solid...
  4. theramenman

    Luma Surround Wi-Fi System Reviewed

    I think startups will start to notice very quickly that unlike other markets, consumer wifi isn't nearly as easy to disrupt. Most of the solutions coming out of new trendy companies selling mesh products seem underbaked or broke in some manner, overpriced and just perform worse than expected...
  5. theramenman

    ZyXEL NAS326 2-Bay Personal Cloud Storage Reviewed

    I usually have a hard time justifying two bay NAS' as they tend to be too expensive for what they offer, usually impractical and slow, and sometimes no better than just adding an external drive to your router. Recently the prices really have been much more reasonable and their performance half...
  6. theramenman

    Question about dedicated routers/pfsense boxes and their uses cases

    Welp, sorry about that. I did post it late last night so thought no one saw it. Forgot that this forum had a number of views feature. Sorry everyone.
  7. theramenman

    Question about dedicated routers/pfsense boxes and their uses cases

    Due to work, I have to move once again and I cant really take my old setup with me for various reasons. Since I'm starting anew and Im still kind of a noob/pretty rusty on what little I already knew, I had a few questions. Given: At my new place Ill finally be living in an area with fibre so I...
  8. theramenman

    Full home networking setup recommendations/help

    Should have probably stated that the cables are already terminated in RJ45's in the basement and wall plugs in the rest of the house. As for the WNDR3700, I have seen them go on evilbay in really good conditions for $15 to $20 and for the basement where we might have little to no people ever...
  9. theramenman

    Full home networking setup recommendations/help

    Its in a small walk in closet sized room. Id say its just big enough to fit like a switch rack and a nas or something of that sort. Thanks to everyone who replied! So far, from testing with my Asus AC68U connected directly with the modem, I don't have good enough coverage of the 2nd floor so Im...
  10. theramenman

    Full home networking setup recommendations/help

    I'm moving into a new house pretty soon. Its a pretty new building and when it was constructed, they seem to have put in cat 6 cabling to every room in the house with the other end of all the cables dangling freely in the basement. The cables are long enough for me to connect to a switch or...
  11. theramenman

    I should already know -- do you use BOTH 5GHz AND 2.4GHz?

    They've been very hit or miss for me. I buy them all from newegg, so its not like some shady back alley deal with counterfeit/subpar products or anything like that. I help set up maybe 6 or 7 of my friends with TP-Link products of various types since they're affordable and they usually get the...
  12. theramenman

    I should already know -- do you use BOTH 5GHz AND 2.4GHz?

    Have any of you owned a TP-Link router long term? Because it aint that great. Their support is abysmal (warranty is useless if you cant even get in touch with customer support and god help you if you try to actually get a replacement or repair) and their hardware tends to fail faster than...
  13. theramenman

    Help finding inexpensive router with 3rd party firmware support

    None of that is relevant I guess. As I said, I wont even really be using it at all. Its just for me to try out the different variants of open source/3rd party firmwares and learn from. It will never really be used as a router. Thus cheap and last gen is perfectly fine. I already have a router...
  14. theramenman

    What options should I consider when buying a BETTER wifi adapter?

    If you could tell us a bit more about where the router is situated and you cant just run an ethernet cable to your PC, it'd help us make better suggestions. But assuming for some reason you cant get an ethernet cable (which probably rules out MOCA since if you can get a cable from your...
  15. theramenman

    Help finding inexpensive router with 3rd party firmware support

    As the title says, Im looking for an inexpensive router with 3rd party firmware support to just mess around with. I already have a Asus AC68U that I use as my actual router but I was looking for something cheap that supports Tomato (preferably Advanced Tomato) and DD-WRT that is also pretty...
  16. theramenman

    Home Router Upgrade advice

    Tin foil hattery aside (D-link is taiwanese btw), its hard to wrong with Netgear and Asus. I tried the TP-Link Archer C5 and C7 and honestly it was really underwhelming. They could barely punch through two indoor walls (drywall, no insulation), the 5GHz is pretty weak with the 2.7 being a little...
  17. theramenman

    Does T-Mobile/ASUS TM-AC1900 (RT-AC68U) Support Merlin?

    This is an old thread I know and sorry for reviving it, but in case any ones wondering, here are some up to date information that I tried my best to check and make sure its valid: The method of editing the web page to make telnet available seems to no longer work with the latest T-Mobile...
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