Since you have a very basic understanding, you might find something like that a little easier to setup and use. Nobody mentioned Asus, Merlin, and openvpn. I have moved from a Netgear R7000 to deco M5 and I am really pleased with the result. In term of design, that is not my choice to group everything in one place.įor the wifi, my house has thick walls and is also 200 sqm. Synology has become a “swiss knife” and you can do a lot of different things on one box. It is a rather expensive solution… But, I like it!

a synology NAS that is used only as a NAS and as surveillance station for security cams.

a NUC where I run hassio, an asterisk PBX, pi-hole….

a dedicated firewall running opnsense (and incoming VPN).

It should be at the edge of your network hence on the firewall. For two reasons, my DS412 (that still runs perfectly as a NAS after 8 years 24/7) has a CPU quite limited and second I don’t think it is a good design to terminate a VPN “inside” your network where the NAS is. These kind of beasts are not that cheap… I also don’t want to run VPN a my synology. I want to have a firewall with 2 1Gb/s interfaces. It is not only a question of performance. Otherwise I might actually go in your direction if I can afford it. do you want to terminate a VPN on your device? Do you want all-in-one?īased on that you will have the “Best router setup” for you.Ĭan you tell my why all of this, especially vpn termination, needs sich a powerful machine? I am going to buy a Synology Ds918+ and I was hoping to be able to run a VPN off of that. That will give a few choices with various features. I would start be the part “what do you know in networking/security?” that will reduce the options. So expensive, a bit of DYI but really tailored to what I want. Very basic setup, all the complexity moved to the firewall. Then, I have a wifi network based on tp-link deco M5. I chose opnsense (fork of pfsense) running on a 200 euros box. It is basically the result of a compromise between : cost, features, technical knowledge.Ī xiaomi router will do little, will cost hardly nothing.įor example, in my case, I want (by design) to run a firewall on a separate box that as enough horsepower to terminate a VPN. The Fritzbox 4040 also works very well with OpenWrt and is available for under 50€.

iptables firewall, sqm, dns adblocking, wireguard vpn, … This is due to the proprietary original drivers, but the big advantage is that you can trust the operating system and control it completely. The only disadvantage you will have with OpenWrt is that the performance (wifi, network throughput) will not be as good as with the original firmware. I use a Netgear Nighthawk R7800 (used via eBay). i didn’t like the configuration in ubiquity. with a good access point you are at 130€. Ubiquiti is already (almost) industry standard and is qualitatively very well manufactured. you could also buy a used fritzbox for 150€. fritzbox is very popular in germany and a good all in one solution for most applications (phone, internet, smart home with dect, firewall, child protection, port sharing, dyndns …).

It depends on your requirements and how many square meters you want to cover with your setup.

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