What Are The European Options For Home Routers? (lemmy.ca)

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[-] randombullet@programming.dev 12 points 2 days ago

Mikrotik.

Especially the ARM64 models.

Just remember everything is an interface.

[-] azgarth1@piefed.social 31 points 3 days ago

Fritzbox, avm. Depending on your isp you can also use it to replace your modem, and they have mesh functionality.

[-] Cyber@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

My ISP actually supplies Fritzbox routers by default.

I turned mine into a passthrough modem for my pfsense firewall to use, but it's a solid piece of kit.

[-] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago

What? Are those actually made inside the EU, not just by a German company but overseas?

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 6 points 2 days ago

They are actually developed in Berlin and made in EU. According to Wikipedia, some components, such as power supply or empty PCBs may come from Asia.

https://fritz.com/unternehmen/ueber-fritz/

[-] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

That's awesome to hear, because they seem to be extremely common in Germany – at least in Berlin, in 2010. Probably now as well. It seemed that wherever I was connecting to WiFi at friends' places, there were always three to ten available WiFi networks with names such as FritzBox-FG42KF1EE or similar.

[-] philpo@feddit.org 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Some already listed here, some newly added: AVM(Germany) - Fritzbox (they are actually partially build in the EU)

Lancom (Germany)

Mikrotik(Latavia)

Turris (Czech R.) - Omnia

Teltonika - Lithuania

Vantiva - France (formerly Technicolour, I don't think one can buy them directly, though)

Softwarewise of course OPNsense.

Btw: OpenWRT is technically not an EU-project, the foundation is a US foundation, but that wouldn't bother me too much atm.

In terms of market share AVM seems to be the largest one in the EU.

[-] redlemace@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Mikrotik.

Pro: it can be made to do everything

Con: you have to make it do it yourself (but it has easy wizards for common configs, so not a big issue)

[-] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago

This is the router my local associative ISP is supplying, a Mikrotik router with openwrt

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 days ago

Models with OpenWrt would be the best!

[-] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Totally agree! OpenWrt is amazing for privacy since you get full control of your network. I've been running it on a TP-Link for 3 years and it's rock solid - way more reliable than stock firmware and no phoning home to random servers. Just make sure to check the compatability list before buying.

[-] wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago

...candidates for use with libreCMC. :)

[-] genau@europe.pub 10 points 3 days ago

Turris Omnia

[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Opnsense.
Open source on your European box.

[-] whaleross@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Checking out their site, 600-1500 euro is not exactly home router league, except maybe for networking enthusiasts.

[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 2 points 2 days ago

Use any low power box you have laying around. Put another NIC in it to make two or buy a small box with two (plus) already.

That's the great thing about *nix.

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