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What’s your decent router? I’m in the market for something fresh and an Edgerouter-4 is looking long in the tooth…

Mikrotik is probably the better general choice for consumer-ish pricing. Personally I would recommend something like a CRS326-24G-2S+RM (which is a switch but running RouterOS) or similar scaled to your needs.

Router has had no problem pushing 1Gb and the switch is rated for something like 44 Gb. Has enough of a firewall and other built in services, plus POE for home devices and SFP+ ports so in the event you need a faster link. Average current draw is < 5 W and it's quiet.

Although nearly any modern mini-PC running Opnsense or VyOS or whatever linux/bsd can trivially do gigabit routing as well. 25 Gb would be a bit harder of an ask :)

I’m using this for a symmetrical 1Gbs line https://protectli.com/vault-6-port/

Running opnsense on it, and it’s doing fine and saturates the line when I’m maxing out downloads. For comparison, the isp (Verizon) router was consistently around 100Mb/s less than this one.

Mikrotik makes some very capable routers. The Rb4011 is incredibly powerful and very low power, and has an SFP+ port, so you can use a sfp+ to rj45 if needed, or straight modem -> sfp+ connection, to get faster than 1 gig speeds.

It has a steep learning curve though, albeit it's extremely rewarding and powerful once you gwr over that curve. It should handle routing 1 gig with zero issues, and is under $200. You can do bonding, vlans, esoteric ip rules, and tons of "misc" functionality.

Do not go with ubiquiti, their hardware is very poor and their UI is very buggy and simply poorly designed, it's focused on people who know a bit above an average person about networking, which I suspect is not the case for most people here.

I have that router, and it can do up to about 2.5Gb/s with actual routing. I have it on a 10GBe direct connect to my "main" 4 port switch, but that just means it can take in multiple unrouted LAN segments.

Once you start doing much esoteric the speed slows down, if you get off the fast path it can be pretty intense (thought they do sell bigger ones that can route more packets).

I like that Mikrotik are very transparent about it. On their site they publish performance test results in various configurations.

Agreed, it's nice to have the number right there and they don't make claims beyond what it actually can do (and arguably, when you're up at 10GB+ your router and your switch shouldn't be the same hardware anymore).

I ended up getting a ridiculous looking Archer gx90 which is still a home router but not a cheap home router.

The main thing is that the CPU in it is 1.5ghz quad core. Before that I had a Linksys with a 800mhz a single core that literally couldn't route traffic fast enough.

I switched to running FreeBSD on a commodity OnLogic/Logic Supply fanless PC from Ebay and I love it. I use Mikrotik for L2 stuff but doing L3 on your own is quite nice.

I got Zyxel AX7501-B0 it supports SPF+ module for 10g/s and has 10g/s for your main device or hotspot and 4 1g/s ports.

Run switchdev with Netris, if you have SmartNIC you can hit 100Gbps.

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