Mach3.2
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I'm not really that advanced, I just like to experiment.Interesting to know that. Unifi AP and Switches seem to be highly recommended by Lawrence of the Lawrence Systems YouTube channel. He does not care much about routers from Ubiquiti though.
Haha, so you are the more advanced users. I am just a beginner who just starts to look beyond the typical consumer grade Linksys, TP-Link and Asus stuff.
To me my Asus RT-AX82U seems to be pretty good for my simple use cases with the help of Pi-hole. Still to look deeper inside, I can ssh into the Asus box and explore what is inside but I can not do much to change the behaviors. Installing Merlin and Entware may enable me to do more things but the CPU is still a limiting factor.
With pfSense it seems to be pretty good and open up much more for me to explore. I am not into the prosumer or enterprise AP though, since the existing routers like Asus RT-AX82U AX5400 and Huawei AX3 Pro AX3000 are good enough as an AP. Even the free SingTel Mesh Router AC1900 is a decent AP to use with pfSense as well since it is just plug and play (automatically runs in AP mode if connected to other router).
Segmenting networks with VLANs sounds really good, but the **** part comes when something broke and you're not around to fix it. I'm at the point where if you pull my pfsense box and put in a all in one router, nothing would work.
The age old mantra of keeping things simple holds true, no point complicating your home network unnecessarily.