I want to say firstly, that my Nighthawk r7000 covers my house with no issues and is more than enough for our needs. House being 1700sq ft Colonial with FULL basement and an upstairs. Heck even the 2 ...

Through the years, I've used all sorts of router and firewall solutions at home and at work. For home networks, I usually recommend something like DD-WRT, OpenWRT or Tomato on an off-the-shelf router.

I'm a beginner and plan to build my own router (500 Mbps plan). Config side, I'm thinking of going with VyOS instead of Pfsense as long as it's beginner friendly. Any specific reason why? That system ...