What router is good at home for a geek these days?

Question

openvpn

The old router has already become, 2.4GHz in total, there are a lot of devices ...
And the requirements have grown. It is not clear what modern routers offer except for 20+ antennas and some mythical 100500 megabits for Wi-Fi.
There were administrative skills at the level of a hobby. I'm not afraid of consoles.
Interestingly:

• souring several dozen ports (the current router is buggy on such a number)
  
• is it possible to raise the OpenVPN client
  
• even better, what would be possible to configure routing so that the conditional rutreker on the machine went through my OpenVPN server, and to other resources - directly? Is there such a thing in current routers?
  
• 5 GHz - well, already the default for today.
  
• Learned about the feature "power over LAN cable". it makes sense? and pull the power on a powerful device?
  
• maybe you can register "hosts-IP" on the router? cute dom.ru replaces DNS responses. you have to prescribe addresses of a conditional rutracker in hosts, even with OpenVPN.
  

What else is fashionable and useful today?
What Wi-Fi speeds are the norm today and devices support? And then I have a NAS on gigabit - it would be cool to watch a 30GB movie from a laptop (now it doesn’t drag through the air)
Can you select some labels? I heard about Kinetic for a while. But I have associations like with Cisco)) What is not a very suitable solution for the house) Yes, and a lot of time has passed
. Share your opinions! Thank you!
PS I have not read the reviews yet, everything around is somehow marketing and superficial.

Answer 1

How about: https://mikrotik.com/product/RB962UiGS-5HacT2HnT

Answer 2

neighboring

Answer 3

I'll share my geeky version:
Mother: ASUS H110M-K
Proc: Intel Pentium G4560
Memory: Kingston HyperX FURY, DDR4, 2 x 4GB, overclocked to 2.4GHz
SSD: AMD Radeon R3 Series 60GB
HDD: WD Black 2TB (file server /backups)
Additional network card: TP-LINK TG-3468 (for LAN)
WiFi network card: TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 - antennas are scattered around the apartment with extension cables
OS: Debian 9 (Linux 4.9)
hostapd - we make a
dnsmasq access point from the WiFi network card - dhcp server + dns cache
iptables - nat + firewall
openVPN - as a server for remote access to the home network,
manual configuration of interfaces (/etc/network/interfaces), bridge between LAN, WiFi and VPN
this is enough for a router, but I didn’t stop there ... I
bought a white ip from the
nginx provider - it sticks out with ports 443 and 80 and into the LAN - 80
node.js - personal site + automation (the same backups)
gitea - personal git
verdaccio - personal npm
self-written stray on go - server for STM32 controllers (Smart Home)
Samba -
Transmission file dump - torrent downloader (driven from node.js via cli interface)
stopped there for now

Answer 4

Mi router 3 has been at home for a long time. A budget and fairly stable router. With firmware, it can do a lot.
Together with dlink 860L they distribute the Internet in the apartment. Everything suits me.

Answer 5

hEX in conjunction with wAP ac

Answer 6

for a geek, probably open-wrt, you can do anything and however you like, install a bunch of packages.
Well, pick up the iron under the load.

Answer 7

pfsense is good for everyone IMHO

Answer 8

Here Mikrotik is advised - I warn you: the implementation of ovpn leaves much to be desired that even udp does not support.

Answer 9

As an alternative to Mikrotik, Asus has older models that are not bad, there are firmware.

Answer 10

Xiaomi mi mini, don't take a triple, flash padavan or openwrt and boom as much as you like, hardware - maybe a lot)

Answer 11

And if it’s completely for a geek for a bunch of things (and not very cheap), then you can look at Turris Omnia :
It’s hard to imagine what such a piece of iron can not cope with ...

Answer 12

used kenetic giga 2, quite arranged, now and newer models came out

Answer 13

Cisco 7513

Answer 14

If you don’t want to sweat a lot with the setting, then definitely Zyxel Keenetic Ultra II ( https://keenetic.com/ru/zyxel-keenetic-ultra-2). If you want to play around with a bunch of settings, then Mikrotik hAP ac ( https://mikrotik.com/product/RB962UiGS-5HacT2HnT).

Answer 15

pfsense
RouterOS
OpenWrt
debian+iptables