Looking for Gbit / multi-Gbit router available in the EU

Hardware Questions and Recommendations
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Thanks for bringing Turris to my attention, their stuff looks neat.

Seeing that none of the available stuff seems to be too much better equipped than the AX50 that I’m running now, and that it turns out that I need to do more research into which FOSS firmware I really want to run, recommendations of not-yet-out HW are fine by me.

EDIT: It's an AX50 / AX3000, not an AX5000

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To me it looks like it’s already out (but no OpenWRT support if that’s what you mean)? It looks pretty good, but it’s a shame only one of the ports can do >1Gbps.

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Yes I meant OpenWRT decent support obviously :grinning:

You can attach to it a 2,5/5/whatever gbps 4/6/!ports switch. That’s not a trouble.

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.... unless it's needed it for the uplink

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Surely it’s not a device future -10years- proof, but in Europe (I live in Italy) I think that something above 500/1000mbps uplink is not near. But I would be glad to be debunked :grin:

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I've had 1/1gbit for the last 5+ years, at home, my ISP have been offering 10/10gbit just as long, probably longer, it was already available, when I signed up.

@shdf just upgraded to 2/1, he's in .fr - X86 device, which network chip should be chosen for "headache-free" functioning? - #62 by shdf

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Woha! What a luck, where do you live? …here in Italy there are some ISPs that are offering 2,5 downlink but only 200 or 500mbps uplink!

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I'm in .se.

The cold country with fast internet, and polar bears roaming the streets (not really, but it still fools people),

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I'm sorry if this is a dumb question, but how would that change things?

Not that it matters right now, I only have 50Mb up.

Lucky you. I think I could get 1Gbps symmetric if I signed up for the business plan instead of the personal one, but AFAIK the price on that wouldn't be worth it. Still, the ISP says they’re expanding to 10Gbit in some places, so I'm looking forward to what the future holds.

I also have a NAS on the network that I wouldn't mind faster local access to, but the SATA drives themselves can't do much over 1Gbps anyway. (Actually now seeing that a realistic speed for a SATA drive is 600Mbps, I'm curious what magic ZFS is doing to get me up to 1Gbps read/write haha.)

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I will keep my answer sime:
https://m.nl.aliexpress.com/item/1005003993468819.html?spm=a2g0n.productlist.0.0.bb69cNXscNXsWP&browser_id=2db429bcc93d40c58089a8a2401fe317&aff_trace_key=a9cbeed21fd24c25b380eba05b28a8ad-1658649559519-05518-UneMJZVf&aff_platform=msite&m_page_id=qocigaclij0cav7h1822f381eaf1739eddf9d310ce&gclid=&pdp_npi=2%40dis!EUR!!317.08!!!!!%402103255b16586495843264440e8719!12000027673149423!sea&algo_pvid=2ee3ebc2-d553-41aa-ac67-f3d5e7ab2e62

I hope this works... If not, just go on aliexpress and search for "router pentium n6005". You will find versions with 4 and 6 intel i225 lan ports, multi GB of ram and m2 ssd. Not ferribly expensive, but should be more than capable enough to do what you need.

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WRT3200ACM is available on amazon.de and they ship to most EU countries.

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Just don't, it's not 250€ good, not today.

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from my point of view the WRT3200ACM is over priced now. on wikidevi they say it was out in 2016 at 249.99$
now in 2022 it is at 249.99€ on Amazon.de !
it doesn't have all the latest technological advances. it only has 1Gbps ports, no wifi 6. Its price should have been greatly reduced. Now we have much better for less.

You can get a NETGEAR WAX206 for 90€.
a few weeks ago, in France, you could buy for 200€ à QHora-301W, with wifi6 and 2x 10Gbps ports (multigig)...

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Note that MBps and Mbps are not the same units: Mbps means "megabits per second" and MBps means "megabytes per second". SATA 3 max speed is 6 Gbps or 600 MBps (wikipedia), whereas in networking speed is almost always specified in Mbps or Gbps. 1 Gbps = 125 MBps.

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Uhh... you guys buy electronics from Alibaba? The only thing I ever trusted them with was a rubber duck with a helmet for motorbike handlebars haha.

But seeing that there don't seem to be a lot of all-in-one options that would outpreform the AX50 that I'm running now, I'll probably end up with a mini PC w/ OPNSense like you linked, when I learn more about OPNSense that is.

By the way I think this is a better link to what you meant.

EDIT: It's an AX50 / AX3000, not an AX5000

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It's been as low as 145€ new, and 130€ used, on amazon.de, according to CCC .
250€ is def a no go.

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Oh, I never thought to check with them, they do indeed ship here. The shipping cost would be more than what I'm used to though.

Yeah, the AX50 I have goes for about 80€ and it has wifi6. Not that good of an upgrade haha.

That one seems to be exactly the same as the AX50, the only difference beinf WPA3 support.

Now THAT'S what I'm talking about! That one also actually seems to be available locally to me on-order. I can't find any info about whether it can run a VPN server, but surely that would be fixed with OpenWRT. If I could have that but with more 10gig ports, I'd be over the moon.

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Oh. It was late at night when I wrote that haha, thanks for pointing that out. Now I actually have a justification for going with 10gbps.

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The QHora-301W is still WiP , see here : Adding OpenWrt support for QNAP QHora-301W

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Thanks for the heads up. Do you think it's going to receive good support once it's done?