Hi all
wondering what your thoughts are on the following scenario:
Need a AC wireless router with good speed and reasonable security features/configurability. In next 4-5 months I plan on building a pfsense box at which point the router will get relegated to WAP duties. So I suppose I should choose speed and reliability over other features.
Range is not that important because I live in a small apartment and even the ISP supplied router (from 2012) provides acceptable signal strength. I intend to use this as my primary and only router and will connect it to ISP provided router set to work as modem (Virgin Media superhub v1 i.e. Netgear VMDG480 in UK)
To be honest, the only reason why I am in the market is because I recently built a linux server that I intend to keep connected 24x7 and while configuring OpenVPN on it, I realised that the so called SuperHub is a b**ch to configure for OpenVPN. There are only 3 firewall setting (Low, Medium and High) and only Low setting (which basically lets everyone in) works with OpenVPN. Also, it is annoying to restart it about once every 30-45 days to keep it sane and prevent dropped connections.
I intend to spend appx GBP80-90ish, so to upgrade stability and obtain better speed with more sensible security/firewall options I have short-listed the following so far:
RT-AC66U (~100 but sometimes discounted to 85-90)
Archer C7 (~80)
Archer C8 (~83)
Out of above I am leaning towards C8 because it is selling for almost the same price as C7 and I feel AC66U will not provide any additional benefit (speed/stability etc).
Please let me know if there are other routers I should consider, especially given that it will spend all of its life as a WAP (after 6 months say). While simply waiting 6 months and buying a WAP may be a sensible option but I just dont want to continue with Super-friggin-hub anymore.
wondering what your thoughts are on the following scenario:
Need a AC wireless router with good speed and reasonable security features/configurability. In next 4-5 months I plan on building a pfsense box at which point the router will get relegated to WAP duties. So I suppose I should choose speed and reliability over other features.
Range is not that important because I live in a small apartment and even the ISP supplied router (from 2012) provides acceptable signal strength. I intend to use this as my primary and only router and will connect it to ISP provided router set to work as modem (Virgin Media superhub v1 i.e. Netgear VMDG480 in UK)
To be honest, the only reason why I am in the market is because I recently built a linux server that I intend to keep connected 24x7 and while configuring OpenVPN on it, I realised that the so called SuperHub is a b**ch to configure for OpenVPN. There are only 3 firewall setting (Low, Medium and High) and only Low setting (which basically lets everyone in) works with OpenVPN. Also, it is annoying to restart it about once every 30-45 days to keep it sane and prevent dropped connections.
I intend to spend appx GBP80-90ish, so to upgrade stability and obtain better speed with more sensible security/firewall options I have short-listed the following so far:
RT-AC66U (~100 but sometimes discounted to 85-90)
Archer C7 (~80)
Archer C8 (~83)
Out of above I am leaning towards C8 because it is selling for almost the same price as C7 and I feel AC66U will not provide any additional benefit (speed/stability etc).
Please let me know if there are other routers I should consider, especially given that it will spend all of its life as a WAP (after 6 months say). While simply waiting 6 months and buying a WAP may be a sensible option but I just dont want to continue with Super-friggin-hub anymore.
