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Fantastic! Thanks so much! I will be investigating this!

The reason why I’d prefer to run it on the router is that we’re a family of five, and with *many* different end-points (each of us have at least 2 laptops, plus 6 mobiles, iPads, several gaming desktops, a NAS, and streaming units (TVs, media players etc) in many rooms around the house). I...

Regarding what to tunnel through VPN, you do have a point that it may seem unneccessary to have for example gaming go though the VPN. But as far as I have understood, VPN policies can "only" be applied to IP addesses and/or MAC addresses? The problem is that both my teens and my wife and me use...

Thanks! This is *very* valuable information about the limitations of Asus routers — gives me something to start searching fir more knowledge about! 👌😊 Also thanks for recommendation of mini PC. You are probably right. (I am, however, a little surprised that a beefier mini PC (i5-i7) for this...

Haha, sorry to hear that!! 😜 This is in Sweden, and 10 Gbps (symmetric) will cost me about 45 USD/month, including the modem (or whatever you call it? Between the fiber connection and your own switch or wifi router). The 1 Gbps (symmetric) I have currently costs 25 USD/mth). Edit: no data caps. 👍🤩

Thanks @Tech Junky and @CaptainSTX ! Really good insights! But also a little disappointing that even a powerful i7-processor cannot give 1Gbps+ VPN throughput with Wireguard... :-( I clearly was over-optimistic to believe that modern consumer routers were now powerful enough for this...

Thanks for your valid comments! Regarding CPU: I saw that the RT-AXE7800 has a quad core processor, and since my understanding of Wireguard is that it (in contrast to OpenVPN) is multi-threaded, I simply assumed that performance would be higher if I would use Wireguard on a quad core CPU...

QUESTION: Will a modern high-end consumer router such as Asus RT-AXE7800 have enough processing horsepower to function as 1000 Mbps+ Wireguard VPN client? BACKGROUND: I currently have a 1 Gbps (1000 Mbps) fiber broadband connection to my home. With my current Asus RT-AC86U router, my wifi...

Oh, it does indeed! I am truly greatful for all you advice, thanks again for taking the time to respond in such depth!! I intend to heed this advice, and taking into account also @coxhaus' experiences from Cisco, it very much looks like I will be building a combo of the Cisco SG350-10MP...

Again, thank you so much for taking the time to help me with this, Trip!! Very appreciated!! :-) I am actually starting to think that combining two (or more) switches may give me the best bang for the buck, as well as most flexibility for the future. Your recommendation Cisco SG-350-10MP...

WOW! Thanks SO much, Trip!! Your knowledge has just saved me 100s of hours of research!! :-)!! I yesterday managed to identify the Cisco C2960L as an alternative, but I would never have found the Ruckus and Zyxel models! You may very well be correct that the Zyxel is the only one within my...

Thanks a lot, coxhaus! Yes, that is actually not a bad idea, it would give me a lot more flexibility!.. Sorry for noob question, but when trunking switches together, would those two switches have to be the same brand/firmware? Or is the trunking technique a standard that would work with all...

I am looking for a (simple) managed switch with at least 24 ports, where at least 8 ports are PoE enabled. Since it will be used in a home environment, it needs to be very quiet (ideally passively cooled/fanless). Total PoE power budget needed is 85W. Does this exist?.. Thankful for any...

I have now updated the firmware on my router to this new version. I cannot see anything new in the OpenVPN settings, neither client nor server. So I guess it must be some behind-the-scenes protection Asus has increased?..

Does anyone have more information about what "more protection" for OpenVPN means? What is it exactly that has changed with this new firware release?