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.
Why would you use a router with a pfsense box? You don’t want a router, you want an access point.
Ubiquiti is generally well regarded amongst home lab people. I believe you need their controller but you run it locally in docker.
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.
Ubiquiti needs the controller software to set them up but you can run that locally for sure. They’re pretty decent access points.
My plan is to have a bunch of my self-hosted stuff sit inside this safe zone, inaccessible from outside of it. I currently have a really cheesy old 802.11g router, and I’d really like to go with something that supports higher speed and a little bit more polished management site (ideally one that can tell me the name of the devices, which even my old surfboard could do).
5Ghz 802.11ac would be nice, but really anything newer than g will be worth looking into.
