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Requirements
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- Speeds
* Dual band 2.4 (300-400 Gbit/s) and 5 Ghz speed (800 Gbits).
There is little sense for faster speeds on 802.11ac, but
might be nice to have 1.5 Gbit/sd with 802.11ax (no clients yet)
* 1 Gbit/s network ports (10 GBit/s variants are not available)
* Dual-core CPU + at least 128 - 256 MB of memory
* Tranceiver boosters for better trough-the-wall transmission
- Mesh
* Easy integration with cheaper models for making transparent air-mesh
- Features
* USB to connect LTE modems and hard drives (some might provide even eSATA)
* File sharing with support of ext4 and vfat/exfat
* Integreted torrent clients and sftp for file transfers
* VPN client/server support (particularly OpenVPN)
* Some cloud support to get internet visibility from behind firewalls
Particularly great with automatic DNS ans SSL regitration
* Guest networks, etc.
- DD WRT
- Full access to firmware to install and maintain software
Variants
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- Keenetic Giga KN-1010 (from 80 EUR in MOW): Good reviews, easy web interface. Meshing with cheaper models (40-50 EUR). Reserve links.
USB3+USB2 with all required fs and protocols. VPN. Cloud+name registration.
Dual-core CPU 880 MHz, 256 MB, 128 MB flash, transceiver boosters.
- ASUS AC1750 RT-AC66U (100 EUR): AsusWRT firmware is praised. AiMesh support (Asus Lira Trio/Mini 250 EUR per 3 devices, alsosimpler ASUS stuff)
USB3+USB2. Ext4/vfat. Samba/FTP. OpenVPN. Access to files on USB disk trough Cloud Web URL (AiCloud/AiDisk).
Dual-core CPU 1 GHz (BCM4708C0 Cortex A9), 256 MB, 128 MB flash.
- Asus RT-AX58U (150 EUR): With AX technology. AsusWRT. AiMesh support. Reserve links.
USB3. Ext4/vfat. Samba/FTP. OpenVPN. AiCloud. SSH.
Tripple-core CPU 1.5 GHz, 512 MB, 256 MB Flash.
- D-Link DIR825/RU (50 EUR): Cheap and providing USB, but slow CPU and not enough memory harming connection stability and causing reboots.
USB2. Samba/FTP. Torrent. ExFat/Ext4? SSH? VPN?
Single-core 1 GHz, 128 MB, 32-128MB flash.
Similar: Asus RT-AC1200, TP-Link Archer C1200
- Linksys WRT1200AC - WRT3200ACM (200 EUR): DD-WRT ready (and has to be upgrade as Linksys firmware sucks)
USB3+eSATA with ... VPN, Web Serer,
Dual-core 1.8 GHz, 512 MB, 256 MB flash.
- TP-Link Archer C9 (or AC2300) + TP-Link Deco (120-150 EUR per 3). More primitive interface than Asus & keenetic.
USB2+USB3
Dual-core 1.8 GHz,
- Simple router, e.g. Xiaomi 4A (30 EUR)
Summary
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- DLink is cheap and unreliable.
- TP-Link have nice devices for meshing (as cheap as 30 EUR), but otherwise ugly interface.
- Keenetic and Asus provide good solutions. With Keenetic having more modern interface and
Asus being more established company. Asus have problems with meshing - expensive and bad amazon reviews.
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