[mxuribe]

I've often thought about doing something like this over the years...but the enthusiasm (if that's the right thing that i feel) often wears away, when i'm just sitting down after a very long, hard day of work to watch netflix...and then "the internet is down". Clearly i have no experience doing what you described, and my fear of added maintenance might be inaccurate...but i do wonder if this is better in the long run. Do you find that such an approach creates lots more maintenance work for you?

[bubblethink]

If you are not doing anything fancy with your current router, using debian on an x86 machine as a router will work indefinitely. All you'll ever do is apt update.

[mxuribe]

Nice; ok thanks!

[simplyaccont]

I been running similar setups for past 20 years or so. It's as much maintenance as you want it to be after initial configuration

[mxuribe]

That's a long time; thanks!

[simplyaccont]

sure. i am now on 4th iteration of gateway (setting it up now). first one died (early 2000s.) second couldn't deal with 120mbit adsl speed. third had 2 mini-pcie cards inside to server as AP. for past couple of years tried edgerouter-x flashed with openwrt, but it was... "not it" (selection of packages is vast, yet limited) so i went back to x86 based one. one interesting side effect, is that much talked about bufferbloat disappeared after i switched to it from edgerouter, even without any queue management (have 1gb cable at home).