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Ironically, it’s the innocent-looking white boxes that are hellspawn devices of pure evil that will wiretap your house, force you into a subscription service and have a 2-year planned obsolescence timebomb in it.
Meanwhile anything that resembles an arachnid will let you do whatever you want, support every imaginable open standard, and work with community firmware that will still be supported a decade later.
If they also crawled around my living room floor I would probably buy two and make them fight each other over AP privileges. May the strongest signal win.
ceiling
So Jehovah’s witnesses vs Satanic Temple?
Jehovah’s witnesses have lasted more then 2 years sadly
Sadly indeed
I don’t think that is true for Wi-Fi 6 routers. Are there any open firmwares for those? Those bastards at TP-Link removed features after a firmware update and I no longer have any visibility to anything that is going on my network. It will be relegated to access point soon, if I don’t chuck it at a wall in spite, after I figure this opnsense thing out.
OpenWRT supports 70 devices with 802.11ax. 7 of them are TP-Link.
I haven’t tried any of these devices myself though.
Mikrotik have innocent enough boxes, although some are black but no subscription service, although it’s proconsumer so it’s not a easy device unless you know what are you doing or you watch a video for each thing you want to do 😅.
Microtik looks very expensive for what they offer. What are their actual advantages of something like an ASUS?
Try to get a carrier-grade router with 20 SFP+ cages from Asus, Mikrotik’s higher end plays in the same league as Cisco or Huawei.
Mikrotik’s lower-end hardware isn’t really much more expensive than what you get from Asus but runs the same carrier-grade software and will never, ever, let you down when it comes to things such as packet throughput. The reason you don’t see OpenWRT images often for their devices isn’t because they’re locked down but because people prefer their software.
Generally speaking I’ve found them to be far cheaper than similarly specced hardware, for the sfp+ and multigig hardware. (I’ve also seen benchmarks that show they can’t handle the same kind of total throughput though either)
For price-value I only knew of Ubiquity, which also offers these kinds of products at supposedly more reasonable prices than the majority of the market.
Mikrotik seems to be older than Ubiquity but hasn’t shown up on my radar for good value professional/prosumer equipment whereas Ubiquity has gotten a lot of hype a few years ago. I wonder what the difference is between the two
Maybe because you’re not European? Mikrotik is Latvian, Ubiquiti from the US.
I remember Ubquity making a huge impression on the scene being touted as “professional hardware for a better price”. I have never really heard that hype around Mikrotik. I’ll keep them in mind though
I’m not European either. I was just looking for cheap fast hardware. I have a ubiquiti access point, it beats the pants off anything else I’ve used before. That said, I will never buy ubiquiti management equipment because they keep having either security issues or outages that affect your ability to administrate the network in the same room.
The cybernetic gods require BLOOD, before your wifi works.
The original BLOOD or a more modern source port?
I don’t do magic and vampires, and I don’t mix toys, but I also haven’t read the release notes so couldn’t actually tell you.
Oh man, if you’ve avoided BLOOD for the fantasy elements you’re really missing out on one of the best FPS games on the Build engine. Arguably the best of all time.
I am sorry. I decided long ago that magic, elves, dragons, vampires, magic, trolls, gnomes, and magic was anathema.
I don’t swing that way. Yeah it’s a shame because a lot of great games contain that kind of entartete kunst, alas, here we are.
I almost get triggered just talking about it.
My cat will sit on either of them.
Ugh not good for the heat to get trapped 😩
Hail Sata full of cables. hollow be thy port.
Thy LAN has run, it will be fun, on the couch as it is up stairs.
Give us this day, our UDP, and forgive us our packet loss, as we forgive those who drop packets meant for us.
This is definitely the way
hollow be thy port
Cable’s unplugged bro
The Elders of the Internet demand… a shrubbery!
A sect of MUDders worships Shub-Internet, sacrificing objects and praying for good connections. To no avail — its purpose is malign and evil, and it is the cause of all network slowdown.
“Freela casts a tac nuke at Shub-Internet for slowing her down.”
“Shub-Internet gulps down the tac nuke and burps happily.”
-- Taken from the Jargon File
That rounded white box is a POS At&T locked down fiber modem/router which they patch biweekly at 3am without your control because they don’t want people hacking their devices to change the DNS server or anything useful.
It wouldn’t be a problem if AT&T let you use your own fiber ONT but they don’t which is technically illegal but no one has sued them yet because they are a billion dollar company.
Thankfully the workaround is to grab a supported ONT, upgrade to 2.5g or higher fiber speeds so they are forced to use XGS-PON, then swap in your ONT with some cloned IDs and downgrade back to whatever plan you want. This all allegedly works because businesses that use AT&T as their ISP also don’t want to pay money for a proprietary piece of junk, and they have enough power to throw around to demand AT&T allow them to use their own fiber hardware.
I picture you whispering this at the full moon while sharpening a blade.
Oh hi. What XGS-PON device allows a cloned ID?
I’ve actually been looking for one forever.
Check here: https://discord.gg/8311-886329492438671420
The two most common are:
So you figured out you are on XGS-PON. I hope you love your speeds!
For XGS-PON, there are 2 devices that we currently support that allow for bypassing:
Azores WAG-D20 (now called the X1Z1E) ONT with a 10G Ethernet port
Where to Buy: https://www.balticnetworks.com/products/azores-1x-10gbe-1x-2-5gbe-intel-based-xgspon-ont
Our Documentation: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13gucfDOf8X9ptkj5BOg12V0xcqqDZDnvROJpW5CIpJ4/edit#
Azores WAS-110 (now called the XSS) ONU in a SFP+ form factor
Where to Buy: [Wait for a group buy, it’ll be cheaper] https://ecin.ca/custom-xgs-pon-sfp-stick-module-xgspon-ont-w-t-mac-function-mounted-on-sfp-package/
Our Documentation: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UIAgtxkImgFRwyaGDGtISD0JXnxWNvuuNDrnRac6wGc/edit#heading=h.f8l0utlsram6
There are notes and some people who have found others that work as well
Thanks, I like it. $200 is a bit steep for the SFP+ unit, but if I don’t have to deal with the ISPs modem nonsense, it’s probably worth it. I’ll probably check out the discord later.
There are total bypass options now to completely remove their hardware from your network using an ONT that lets you clone the att device serial number. Just a heads up.
Mind to direct me to the right direction on this? For academic purposes, of course.
https://discord.gg/8311-886329492438671420
Basically has all the documentation and links you need in one section because its made up of various forum posts and google docs lol.
I love having Google Fiber, they gave me a modem with one open RJ-45 port and said “have fun with the other side of this network”.
Google fiber still exists? Huh, I figured that would be another good project they kill off after a year or two
It’s only in certain areas, I live in Seattle and it’s in Seattle but not everywhere in Seattle.
Like early wifi routers weren’t also stupid looking? I don’t think I have ever had one that fit properly anywhere because of their odd shapes and/or antennae, and I’ve had wifi since 98 or 99.
As an aside: While I was working for a WISP, I came into possession of some older Ubiquity antennas and I used a couple to blast my home network’s wifi across my small town so I could use wifi on my phone pretty much anywhere within 3 miles of my house. Shit was rad as fuck.
You’re right. That is rad as fuck.
I like the UFO and Coke can designs personally.
Great if you happen to be or know an electrician, drywall repair expert, and painter. For most of us this isn’t very practical though. I do wish that ceiling router ports were standard on new builds at least and if you didn’t want to use them you could plug in smoke alarms instead.
There’s nothing stopping you from just plopping these on a table somewhere.
The UFO has a pop-out notch on the rim so it can sit flat on a table or wall with a cable running out the side, and the can comes with multiple bottom attachments you can swap out depending on if you want it to rest on a table, be screwed into the side of something, or be mounted on top of a threaded bolt.
I just chose the images that showed the shapes off. It’s not the only way they can be used.
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I’ve got the corporate ubiquiti flying saucer in my house. It kind of irritates me, but it works.
Same.
If only they came in chromed hexahedrons… I would get one and obey it.
I’m not the most knowledgeable about networking hardware.
At what point are those antennas just excessive?
My understanding is most of the antennas on the Asus routers are dummies, just there for the look. Most have 2 actual antennas, some have 4.
“Does either model spy on me?”
“Yes.”
“Which one?”
“Yes.”
The one on the right is ASUS, they make pretty good quality hardware and software and don’t spy on you, at least for what concerns routers.
Why dont you give me your Routers source code if you have nothing to hide, Asus?
They are obligated to publish the routers’ firmware source code under GPL-2 since it’s primarily based on Tomato and OpenWRT firmware.
You can find the respective source code on the Support page of every router, tab Driver & Utility > Driver & Tools > OS: Others.
If the version you find there does not match the last published firmware, you can send them an e-mail.
Can I get the one on the right with four antenna and a black pyramid in the middle? “Ancient Spirits of Ethernet, transform this weak signal… to Wi-Fi, the Ever-Streaming!”
Or you could choose one with wings.
This one does have beam forming antennas. I don’t know if that feature helped, but this router works in my long narrow apartment in a congested area where other routers failed.
Careful it doesn’t Wi-fly away when you leave a window open
looks like a manta ray
It’s beautiful. Perfect device for an installation next to an aquarium.
The hawk wifi’s naturally beat the spider wifi’s signal noise making it superior.
Isn’t that the Star Wars Imperial shuttle after it’s landed?
