[possibleworlds]

My primary use case for a home router is solid set and forget qos. fq_codel and cake were recently added to routeros v7 beta, which means I will be plugging in my hEX again after a few years of happy edgerouter x usage.

Also interested in what access points (besides unifi) people pair with mikrotik routers. Any wifi 6 recommendations?

[varenc]

The standalone Ubiquiti access points are still great IMHO. It's just their recent prosumer gateway/router product line that's really struggling. I've had a great experience with the older UAP-HD-PRO. Their newish $100 Wifi 6 U6-Lite AP is tempting but haven't tried it.

If you just need one AP you can set it up in standalone mode and forget about it. If you want more monitoring and control you'll need to have a Ubiquiti controller running to manage things. (can run one in docker, on a rasp pi, or just buy their "Cloud Key" product.)

[selectodude]

Their Edgerouter VyOS products are awesome too. I won't touch their Unifi stuff but I can't find anything that's even in the same price ballpark as the EdgeRouter 4.

[gcblkjaidfj]

> If you just need one AP you can set it up in standalone mode and forget about it

unless you need any feature besides wifi at all. then you need a controller and usg at all times.

[fivesixzero]

For awhile I was actually using a UniFi NanoHD for my AP. Performance and stability were great but running a Docker container for a Ubiquti Controller (for a single AP) was annoying enough for me to bail on it. My old Asus router with OpenWRT has been fine for now and doesn’t require me to run a container. :)

I’m still looking for a proper WiFi 6 replacement that can hook up to my 10G core, ideally via 2.5/5/10G copper or preferably SFP+ DAC. Nothing’s jumped out at me yet though.

[orisho]

If you just want dumb WiFi, you can provision and remove the controller. Nowadays you can even do this with the UniFi phone app (standalone mode let's you configure and update firmware).

I've had a UAP AC LR at home for a few years and we've got about 6 UAP AC HD at work. We used the phone app to provision and after that you can pretty much forget about it. Great for small startups that want great coverage and dont have someone who's supposed to mess around with it.

[colordrops]

I'm curious as to what you are doing with qos in a home setup.

[possibleworlds]

Late reply, and the other reply covered it really.

Up until around a year ago I was on adsl2 with a highly symmetrical connection. I work from home mostly as does my partner, with constant syncing to various cloud services plus large uploads and downloads for work.

Maxing out the puny 1Mb of upload would render the entire connection completely unusable. Yes, you can manually limit various apps but it so much easier just to throw an edgerouter x in front of everything running stock smart queue or cake.

I'm on a faster connection now so uploads are not so much an issue, but even still it works a treat for things like gaming / VOIP.

[supertrope]

Not have VoIP or gaming get disrupted whenever a large upload runs.

On my previous ISP latency would reach 2000+ ms when I let Dropbox sync or downloaded a huge file. Even web browsing would time out. I used Tomato to prioritize DNS, my VoIP analog telephone adapter, the first 256KB of any HTTP(S) connection, and some 27000+ ports used by games.

My current WAN connection reaches 300 ms without fq_codel enabled. With it enabled there's no jump in latency.