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What access points do you use? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm thinking about upgrading my W-Fi and I was curious what wireless access points (WAP) people are using. I'm currently using a Netgear R7800 running OpenWRT.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I really like them but they do have two downsides for "more advanced" users (or at least for me) - it is a home device as after all.

No support for VLAN or VLAN tagging - you can set up you WiFi and a guest WiFi. You can also map the guest network to an Ethernet port. But that's about it.
There is no way to change the DNS suffix (*. fritz.box) to another value - I do own a domain that I use for the local services on my home server, etc. which then allows for Let's Encrypt certificates, but I cannot use it "out of the box".

If you're an advanced user, there's plenty of ways around that, though. I just wished that these two thing were to exist in the firmware to have less work with my home infrastructure.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Totally agree with the first point, it is a limitation, and the guest wifi sticking to a eth port is just a patch. One that works but still a patch.

But I don't see the point of the prefixes. What do you mean? I also have a custom domain and a local dns server y can use the domain even internally. I just simple ignore that...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I’m also using a local resolver. But since I had some problems using another DHCP server (which was probably a problem on my end), so I’m current setting some devices in my FRITZ!box to a fixed IP and then enter that in my DNS server. If I could just skip the second part and tell the FRITZ!Box to just resolve printserver.example.com instead of printserver.fritz.box - that’d be nice. Maybe I should do another try with a DHCP server soon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Damn those are some serious limitations for an AP.