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Comment by markus92 | Hacker News Reader

So what's the go to brand for decent networking gear nowadays?

Mikrotik is decent! While there is some lackluster hardware (and, to be honest, most of their wireless AP solutions kinda suck), I've ran Mikrotik on two small-scale networks (~60 devices each, not including WiFi) + my home network, and had no issues whatsoever. Love them

I find the management software to be... lacking. That's where ubiquti does great, in my opinion. I have some Mikrotik wireless wires and they're great but I never look forward to having to touch them (which is extremely rare).

It's not for everybody, but I run OpenBSD on an APU2 from PCEngines. The hardware is EOL but it's handy to be able to run my setup on virtual any modern commodity hardware, as long as I can fit a couple NICs inside.

A couple years ago my parent's DSL line was accidentally severed, but our neighbors agreed to let us bridge through their WiFi. I setup an old Pentium MMX 200MHz box with a PCI NIC and PCI wireless card and got them online again. It was more of a fun exercise and an effort to put something between our network and theirs, but it was even fast enough for Netflix.

any murmurs if PC Engines are thinking about a replacement platform yet? Maybe something like the N100/N300 series? I see quite a few firewall appliances with those.

Or maybe the space is too saturated these days with competitors from aliexpress/etc.

The sense I’ve got from what they’ve published, and a few emails back and forth on final orders, is that the guy behind PC Engines has had enough and wants to go do something else with their life.

Aruba Instant On. Same hardware as their enterprise offerings, much lower prices, zero hassle.

VyOS on a passive Intel box for routing.

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