I’m gonna be moving into a new place soon and I’ll be setting up the Internet there. I want to experiment with setting up a local network with static IPs just for learning and fun, so I want my own router. I don’t want something hard to use because other people will be using the internet from it too. I don’t really know what the router market looks like, and I don’t want to support Reddit, so I’m asking here.
Ideally, this router would:
- Be under $150 (but I might be willing to go a bit higher)
- Be easily purchasable (no AliExpress specials)
- Not sell data to corporations
- Have a long life, ideally through easily set-up open source firmware but reputable proprietary is fine
- Have good enough antennas to propagate signal across a small house
- Support up to 500Mb/s sustained speeds
What do you think? Thank you for your help!
didn’t know you could still get a dial up plan.
j/k, but damn I’m so sorry, it should be illegal to call VDSL broadband.
Some of us live with cellular “broadband” and are thrilled to get 60Mbps. And no, there is no other option available at my location (not counting 12Mbps DSL).
I’m sure they would have mentioned if they needed a cellular router