Original Ubiquiti Dream Machine.
Had an old Nightgear DD-WRT for the longest time.
Then moved to an optiplex opensense.
Realized i need something easier for home so got into Ubiquiti.
Ubiquiti is nice b/c it can be as hands-off or hands-on as you want.
Defaults are sane, but tons of customization is available and the ecosystem is huge and expanding.
It's kind of like Ryobi. Because I'm already in the ecosystem, I can basically get a decent enough version of any tool I need and the stuff I've already bought works better with it than anything that might be otherwise better.
Second this. I still have the OG Dream Machine and it’s working great. If you’re about being more serious about home networking, ubiquiti can be fun. But it can get expensive, it’s the like the Apple of enterprise networking.
Unifi dream machine with one access point. Dream machine for WiFi coverage on one floor and access point for WiFi coverage on other floor.
https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/udm
\+
https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/wifi-flagship/products/u6-plus
Thank me later. :)
Plug your gaming rig into dream machine for hardwire low latency gaming.
Unifi Dream Machine (cylinder), old unifi Wifi Access point, old 8 port switch, 6 machines. All still get regular updates and security years after. Decent setup in conjunction with my lab which does not require much
Unifi UDM. Just note that between the WAN and 8 ports of 1Gbps it only has 3.5Gbps of switching bandwidth. Through the Copper WAN & SFP ports are switch in hardware at the full 10Gbps (noting that the copper WAN is still a 1Gbps port or a 2.5Gbps port on the newer UDM models).
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