Request: I’m looking for something with high reliability rather than high speed. It needs to support 30+ devices.

Additional information: My house is about 30m (100ft) long, and the internet comes in by ethernet at one end of it. I’m happy to use a Wi-Fi extender if needed.

Context: I’ve been having issues with both my current and previous routers. Devices are randomly unable to communicate over the network for several seconds at a time. Both ethernet and Wi-Fi are affected.
I live in Australia, so even the slowest router should be more than fast enough.
I have a large number of automated devices that need to stay connected at all times - even 5 second network dropouts are difficult to deal with. Internet dropouts are handled gracefully.

Any suggestions are gratefully received.

  • misk@sopuli.xyz
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    1 month ago

    Your biggest worry with something that’s connected to the internet are security updates and in general nobody will support a product indefinitely so can’t really buy anything for life. Your best bet would be a router that supports open firmware like OpenWrt.

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      2 days ago

      Your biggest worry with something that’s connected to the internet are security updates and in general nobody will support a product indefinitely

      Don’t know about indefinitely but Turris do so far, and that doesn’t look like it’s going to change any time soon.

      Edit: Heck, they even offered hardware upgrades for previous releases, whilst still supporting all products with software updates.