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What access points do you use? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by agile_squirrel@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I'm thinking about upgrading my W-Fi and I was curious what wireless access points (WAP) people are using. I'm currently using a Netgear R7800 running OpenWRT.

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[–] thelittleblackbird@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fritzbox boxes.

They tick all the checkboxes

good standards support (including dect protocol if you want to have an ip phone or even iot protocols)
fast wifi speeds
cheap (at least for the second hand in ebay)
super stable, never had a problem with them in 5 years or more
fast roaming support out of the box

It is a well known brand in Germany but pretty unknown outside that country. Honestly it is the best bang for buck I was able to get.

Honestly, I would spend 10 minutes checking on them

[–] elvith@feddit.org 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I really like them but they do have two downsides for "more advanced" users (or at least for me) - it is a home device as after all.

No support for VLAN or VLAN tagging - you can set up you WiFi and a guest WiFi. You can also map the guest network to an Ethernet port. But that's about it.
There is no way to change the DNS suffix (*. fritz.box) to another value - I do own a domain that I use for the local services on my home server, etc. which then allows for Let's Encrypt certificates, but I cannot use it "out of the box".

If you're an advanced user, there's plenty of ways around that, though. I just wished that these two thing were to exist in the firmware to have less work with my home infrastructure.

[–] thelittleblackbird@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Totally agree with the first point, it is a limitation, and the guest wifi sticking to a eth port is just a patch. One that works but still a patch.

But I don't see the point of the prefixes. What do you mean? I also have a custom domain and a local dns server y can use the domain even internally. I just simple ignore that...

[–] elvith@feddit.org 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I’m also using a local resolver. But since I had some problems using another DHCP server (which was probably a problem on my end), so I’m current setting some devices in my FRITZ!box to a fixed IP and then enter that in my DNS server. If I could just skip the second part and tell the FRITZ!Box to just resolve printserver.example.com instead of printserver.fritz.box - that’d be nice. Maybe I should do another try with a DHCP server soon.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Damn those are some serious limitations for an AP.