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!

  • bmcgonag@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    Not knowing what your goal is, I’ll start with this: I had very similar hardware to you, and while I was fine with the Omaha Ui, I just never could get it setup how I needed or wanted. I had the er605v2, 3 eap615 wall WiFi 6 apps, and a switch for PoE from the Omaha line but don’t recall the model. I just finally gave up on it, and moved the er605 and wall WiFi APs to OpenWRT. Setup my network with a dumb PoE switch and 4 VLANs and haven’t looked back. It all just works and I almost never mess with it. I’m not saying it wasn’t a little work initially, but it’s been worth it. I’ve now added a 4th wall WIFI (just download a backup of an existing one, install openWRT and restore to the new one. Change the IP and done.) I added two managed PoE Switches with OpenWRT as well. So it’s allowing me to grow as I need to.