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Looking for recommendations for a wifi router to go with a pfsense appliance (fedia.io)

submitted 4 weeks ago by miguel@fedia.io to c/right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de

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Question for everyone - I'm looking to set up a dedicated pfsense firewall appliance + wifi, but it seems like 99% of the wifi routers are cloud managed anymore - recommendations for a decent modern one that is only managed internally? After my experiences with nest and tplink's cloud services stuff, I'm super leery of web reviews.

Obviously, something maintainable in keeping with R2R ethos, not some sort of cloud-locked remote-controlled stuff.

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[–] miguel@fedia.io 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Sorry, yes, that'd probably be a better term. Most of the ones I've found refer to themselves as routers, and the ones that were listed as APs mostly required a central mesh service of some sort (like nest/hub).

You are correct though, I just want to basically add solid wifi to my little pfsense appliance.

I'll check out ubiquiti for sure. I'd been told it required a cloud connection, but if it can be run locally, that'll do well.

[–] feddylemmy@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Ubiquiti needs the controller software to set them up but you can run that locally for sure. They're pretty decent access points.