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Looking for new router for home network.
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this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2023
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All of the suggestions here are strong.
I don't know what electricity costs in your region, but I consider that as part of my decisions. You can soon spend more on power than the device costs.
A router will be on 24/7 with a fairly consistent load (sure there's peaks, more in the day, etc...)
Personally, I'd recommend you try a few different options - an old x86 PC is terrible for power, but great to try out pfSense / OPNSense / DD-Wrt / OpenWrt / Tomato first... then from that pick your real hardware.
Personally, I've tried a few things over the years and the *WRTs in a single re-imaged old wifi-router is probably everyone's Step 1.
If you want new, low power, etc - have a look at this for inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM6Ivy_KLR4
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