Hello folks,

Recently moved to a new flat and have been rethinking my networking stack. Current stack is a full tp-link omada setup:

  • Router: ER605
  • Switch: 8-port TL-SG2008P
  • Controller: OC200
  • First AP: EAP610 Wifi
  • Second AP: EAP615-Wall Wifi 6

While this has been functional and reliable, i cannot stand the UI, its slow and sluggish and overall hasn’t been a great experience to configure. Therefore i am now looking to swap this out with something new.

My inital thought was to swap this out with the equivalent Unifi gear. However, OPNsense was recently updated and has never looked juicier. Im torn between the these two choices and unsure what hardware to go for. Unifi is tempting as it looks amazing and is easy to configure. OPNsense is tempting as it is open-source, not enterprise thus less prone to enshitification, and likely to be cheaper too.

My use case is: 2 people, 10 devices ish in total, for a flat of 85 square meteres. Got a few different serveres, two desktops, 3 phones, tv, laptops etc. Servers, deskrops and tv will go wired, rest is wireless.

I am by no means a professional, but not a total noob either. Looking to set up wireguard tunnel, vlans for different devices and guest network.

I would love some input on this to would weigh in on my final desicion. What are you running, are you hapoy with it, are you looking to change, etc…

Thanks in advance for any tips or recommendations!

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    While this has been functional and reliable, i cannot stand the UI, its slow and sluggish and overall hasn’t been a great experience to configure.

    Router: ER605

    If your issue is just the Web UI on the router, most network hardware that I’ve run into has some kind of CLI interface.

    kagis

    It sounds like you can set up SSH to the thing.

    https://superuser.com/questions/1680383/how-do-i-gain-root-command-line-access-to-a-tp-link-tl-r605-router

    First you have to enable “Remote Assistance” which apparently enables SSH access. Then SSH into your router

    ssh user@routerIP

    I noticed on a mac that Ventura no longer accepts lower hashes so you have to update the ssh config file on Mac’s (and perhaps other Distros) with the following:

    sudo nano /etc/ssh/ssh_config

    then add to the bottom:

    HostkeyAlgorithms +ssh-rsa <<enter new line as I don’t know how to edit in this forum>> PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms +ssh-rsa

    Then Save.

    When you log in you have to enter the command EN (to enable, similar to a cisco router)

    From there, type help.

    Thats as far as I’ve gotten. Help shows a bunch of config and show options.

    After you have entered “en” for enable, you can enter “configure” to get to config options. Type help after Configure, lots of options there.