• neidu2@feddit.nl
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    8 months ago

    Neither.

    19" rack mount router and switch supplying PoE to a proper wall mount access point that allows for vlan tagging per ssid.

    I’m so done with consumer grade crap. After my WRT54G had to be replaced, nothing quite measured up unless I went for industrial grade hardware.

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      8 months ago

      Consumer grade has taken a nosedive but it’s head and shoulders over what the ISPs give out now.

      I had to install a new gateway for my mom the other day, the one supplied by Spectrum. I haven’t looked at or touched one of these things in years, I had no idea what they were like now.

      I opened the box, set it up, plugged it in, saw that the only information the display gives customers now are the words “Power” and “Online”, unplugged it, put it back in the box, and told Mom “I love you too much to let this in your home. I’ll buy you a modem.”

      I didn’t even get to the part where apparently you have to use an app to change the password, and the admin panel is not truly accessible anymore.

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        8 months ago

        My small ISP (in Germany) gives out AVM Fritzbox, and they may not be as good as ubiquity, but they are certainly not crap. The routers of the bigger ISPs have even gotten pretty good as well over here and no one is ever forced to use the ISP supplied box in Germany anyway.

        I just use the Fritzbox as a router and disabled the WiFi, which I do with Ubiquity APs. In one or two years I may have had to restart it once or twice, that is good enough for me.