Fibre Router

[semaphore]

Can anyone suggest a top of range full feature fibre router?. With wifi and gigabit ethernet port.

 

[Soprono]

Might want to suggest your budget too? There are routers ranging from 1k to 8k that have various levels of performance and features.

I'd look at the general trend and "best routers" around the world since these will have a 90% chance of having a WAN port for Fibre

 

[semaphore]

No budget, I'm just sick and tired of rubbish routers, so curious to here what others are using that is top of the range.

 

[Anthro]

Meet my new baby
R 1,251 incl. VAT
Netis AC1200 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Fiber Router(WF2780F)

 

[MagicDude4Eva]

Meet my new baby
R 1,251 incl. VAT
Netis AC1200 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Fiber Router(WF2780F)

With which local fibre providers does this work where you can just plug in the fibre cable straight in a non fibre-ISP device? As far as I know most of them are either running Calix or use their own proprietary CPE.

 

[paul5186]

With which local fibre providers does this work where you can just plug in the fibre cable straight in a non fibre-ISP device? As far as I know most of them are either running Calix or use their own proprietary CPE.

Maybe an active fibre provider, e.g normal single mode fibre e.g like cybersmart/lightspeed

 

[Anthro]

Well, or I can get the WF2880 but I am all for having my own direct Fibre connection (my flat is getting infrastructure as we speak)

 

[Zarnicate]

Just a note: Try to get one that has a VPN Client & Server capabilities. Thus if you setup VPN on the router you are more secure.

I currently use the ASUS RT-AC87U

 

[Looney]

Just a note: Try to get one that has a VPN Client & Server capabilities. Thus if you setup VPN on the router you are more secure.

I currently use the ASUS RT-AC87U

How is this router? I'm also thinking of getting one.

 

[JacquesR]

How is this router? I'm also thinking of getting one.

I'm using the RT-AC68U, and would recommend it strongly. Given that the 87U is an improvement on it, and also now mature enough that early bugs would have been ironed out, it's even more likely to be solid. If you do go with Asus, Merlin's firmware is superb - I'm running ad-blocking off the router, for example.

 

[avr-rulez]

I'm using the RT-AC68U, and would recommend it strongly. Given that the 87U is an improvement on it, and also now mature enough that early bugs would have been ironed out, it's even more likely to be solid. If you do go with Asus, Merlin's firmware is superb - I'm running ad-blocking off the router, for example.

Hey JacquesR - do you know if this firmware overcomes the bug of not being able to run full speed USB3.0 and 5Gig Wifi on the AC68U?

 

[SpiderGear]

I got this in anticipation of fiber.

Mikrotik RB2011UiAS-2HnD-IN. A bit hard to setup if you know nothing about networking but wow, its got a ton of features!

 

[Phence]

What you need is a router with an Ethernet WAN port, this term fibre router is misleading as it might imply you need a router with sfp ports. #justsayin

 

[Anthro]

I got this in anticipation of fiber.

Mikrotik RB2011UiAS-2HnD-IN. A bit hard to setup if you know nothing about networking but wow, its got a ton of features!

I love that thing - was my second option only reason I did not go for it, is because I am not entirely sure of the Mikrotik OS just yet, even though I am running a RB at home for my WiFi

 

[JacquesR]

Hey JacquesR - do you know if this firmware overcomes the bug of not being able to run full speed USB3.0 and 5Gig Wifi on the AC68U?

No idea, sorry (I haven't noticed those problems myself, but I haven't looked for them either). You could browse the forums to see if there's mention of it (the dev is very active there).

 

[DMNknight]

Ubiquiti EdgeMax Lite is apparently a good little router as well, but is without Wifi.

That's easily solvable by just getting a seperate wifi AP of which Ubiquiti have a couple of good ones. There's even some for sale in the SALE threads on this forum

 

[mithrandi]

I'd recommend getting the EdgeRouter X over the Lite, as the Lite lacks the processing power for running fq_codel ("Advanced QoS" as the UI calls it) at high rates. (Not sure offhand what the price difference is like, though)

 

[PBCool]

I'd recommend getting the EdgeRouter X over the Lite, as the Lite lacks the processing power for running fq_codel ("Advanced QoS" as the UI calls it) at high rates. (Not sure offhand what the price difference is like, though)

We might have an X lying in stock that we can offload at cost minus some if that's what you are looking for.

 

[Jimmy-Z]

If by some miracle I get fibre, I intend to stick with my Asus dsl-ac68u. Gigabit LAN, any port can be configured for WAN, supports MAC spoofing, has AC wifi & dual processors

 

[AfricanTech]

I got this in anticipation of fiber.

Mikrotik RB2011UiAS-2HnD-IN. A bit hard to setup if you know nothing about networking but wow, its got a ton of features!

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Exact same one I have : love:

It does require work to setup, but boy oh boy, you really can do almost anything with it eg I have two ISP's dialled up at the same time with all the 'high volume' traffic flowing via the uncapped ISP from 18h00-00h00 and all normal traffic going via the 'high quality' capped ISP.

PS: I presume that you know how to 'harden' it (closing unnecessary ports and services, basic firewall config, ensuring that no one can login to it over the internet, etc)