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What access points do you use? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by 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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[–] 14 points 2 years ago (4 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

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 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.

    1. 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.
    2. 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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...

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  • [–] 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.

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