So I’m trying to build a router. Just need something to handle the networking in my house and the plan is to separate things out via virtual local area networks. Anyway, reading a bunch of threads and comments, I think my design will be something akin to this. Is this good or bad? Ultimately I wanna run OPNSense since that’s what most people recommend, but wanna about x86.

NanoPi as a hub: https://a.aliexpress.com/_EHU4JCV

AX3000 as an AP: https://a.aliexpress.com/_EzPBBVX

Network Switch: https://a.aliexpress.com/_EITz5Gz

  • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tfOPEnglish
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    9 months ago

    This post is tremendous, thank you.

    I originally planned to go for an all in one, but then started finding cool stuff and it made sense to make it so I could swap out bits of the set-up without having to replace the whole thing.

    OPNSense versus OpenWRT. I got lead astray! 😂 but seriously, everyone says that eventually everyone ends up running OPNSense anyway.

    Regarding the Banana Pi, I was looking at them for ages and someone said to go for the NanoPi over it as the support on the software NanoPi is better.

    Regarding the rest of you post, I’m still trying to digest it. Clicking links and reading stuff, but I wanted to thank you. Truly!

    • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Regarding the Banana Pi, I was looking at them for ages and someone said to go for the NanoPi over it as the support on the software NanoPi is better.

      I guess it depends. The BananaPi guys work very closely with the OpenWRT people, if you notice they usually provide testing / dev boards to members of the community before releasing things, they commit code to the project and their routers are usually OpenWRT first. There’s also an upcoming OpenWRT router from them that has been designed in collaboration with OpenWRT developers.

      NanoPi has Armbian which is fine and nice however if you want a router, great OpenWRT compatibility is certainly more important.

      everyone says that eventually everyone ends up running OPNSense anyway

      I have to disagree with this. That’s mostly hype and people who don’t know what they’re doing, there are good reasons do pick OPNsense at a medium size company with a large and complex deployment but certainly not at a smaller scale. Either way OpenWRT is highly modular and very well documented you can just install whatever you require.

      • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tfOPEnglish
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        9 months ago

        I was reading the comments on the OpenWRT forums about the new router, even the people there feel it’s underpowered.

        If it can run OpenWRT and PiHole, I’ll be happy.

            • TCB13@lemmy.world
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              9 months ago

              What were you expecting? It’s a thing designed to be under 100$, there are no miracles there. Get one of the BPI routers if you want performance. From time to time there are nice deals on aliexpress for those.