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by Fnoord 2598 days ago
Currently I went for an Ubiquity route: ER-L, UAP AC Pro, and an ES‑16‑150W. Together it cost over 500 EUR. Add to it a Synology NAS with 16 GB RAM and 2x 6 TB HDD and it all cost ~1500 EUR.

I'd want the Unifi AP AC Pro either way though because the location of my router/switch isn't appropriate for WLAN AP, and I want the flexibility. My ER-L runs WireGuard, Pi-Hole (for adblocking), and Unbound (for DNSSEC). This allows my roaming devices (which roam over e.g. LTE or corporate/public WLAN) to utilize the mentioned services. The Synology NAS runs Docker, e.g. UNMS/Unifi Controller, but also things such as Nextcloud.

As long as I keep hardware offloading enabled (which does not work with certain software) the throughput of all of the above hardware saturates the specifications. I'm happy with the hardware, but I bought it all before I knew about R7.

Turris MOX software is based on OpenWrt btw. You could add 2x the 8 port module for a total of 17 ethernet ports (A+E+E) [1].

[1] https://mox-configurator.turris.cz/