I did something slightly different: I was donated various low-power, low-noise PC parts from a friend, one of which was a motherboard with two ethernet ports. Chucked FreeBSD on it, configured one port as WAN and the other LAN, connected LAN to cheap-ish switch and from there also to wifi bridge.
Never had a better setup.
It blows any consumer router I've used out of the water in terms of stability, performance, flexibility, security, and user experience.
Getting emails for potential security issues, custom DNS domain for local network, fail2ban bruteforce prevention, QoS, alerting when WAN goes down, and so on, has all been a breeze to set up.
Never had a better setup.
It blows any consumer router I've used out of the water in terms of stability, performance, flexibility, security, and user experience.
Getting emails for potential security issues, custom DNS domain for local network, fail2ban bruteforce prevention, QoS, alerting when WAN goes down, and so on, has all been a breeze to set up.