Ubiquiti Edge Router X

It's a little bit more than a Walmart router, but it's really not that much to do.

Yes, I am sure. Let's reboot. Man, this thing is really persistent, isn't it?

* Wired Router: Ubiquiti EdgeRouter 4 ($200)

* Wireless Access Point: Ubiquiti UniFi nanoHD Access Point ($180)

Boom.

There’s nothing wrong with this router, and a lot that’s right with it. However, the management interface is by means of a web app talking to a server running on the router, so unless you punch a hole in your firewall, you’re limited to doing the management from a browser running on the same LAN. Th...

Grab a Ubiquiti Edgerouter or a Mikrotik hEX. Any of the ports on them can be assigned as WAN or LAN and you can failover or load balance until your heart's content.

Then just configure the Synology router in AP mode to handle the wireless.

Made it work, and it seems to work well. It handles load balancing two roughly equal ISP connections (two Star Link sats) well enough. But it took me 5 or 6 factory resets to finally get there. And while I expected not to control it through the Unifi controller, it's still disappointing and I haven'...

Router - Ubiquiti Edgerouter 10x

Wifi - 2 Unifi Ap-AC Long range on opposite ends of the house.

Rock solid.

Updated Dec 20, 2019. I'm throwing in the towel, after nine months of use as an IPSec VPN endpoint. The problem is I've wasted too much time repairing configurations that EVAPORATE, if I make a slight change via GUI. This lack of quality control is infuriating, and has persisted despite firmware upd...

If it has trouble even managing that, then bridge the damn thing into just a dumb cable modem and drop in a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X or Mikrotik HeX for $60 as your wired router. Switching - Unless you can get PoE injectors for free or super cheap, I'd opt for a PoE core switch in place of the Netgear. Plenty of enterprise stuff (Cisco, Juniper, HPE, etc.)

I've always liked the Ubiquiti stuff - at home, I use their AP's (and have for businesses in the past) and used to use a USG-3. However, when connection speeds increased, the USG-3 was not cutting it - Smart Queues (fq_codel) was simply not able to keep up (I have a 350mbps symmetrical FTTH connecti...