Network Equipment Choices?

HouseOfBugs

Just curious to hear what everyone is using for networking equipment. I'm all in on the Ubiquiti ecosystem and love it. I also have some DIY stuff here and a main box that has VMs on it for HA, BlueIris, and other local services.

Squishworx

Sonicwall firewall, dedicated server (Sitting under my desk), Ubiquiti edgerouter X (No wifi on our server).

60tb's of storage, though admittedly wordpress takes up about 1/1000 of that (Some people might say porn is the rest, but I consider it art.)

zolon

Ubiquiti mostly.. I have a few homebrew things running as well for network management.

Outside of that, well.. I have 12 pis on my network that actively do things.

Undeadlord

Mine is a total hodge podge of stuff. Servers and systems are mostly home-built, some Arlo camera equipment, a Netgear NAS, and a TP-Link router.

kb9jlo

I have some older HP enterprise level switches. I have some TP Link - I don't always like it but you can't beat the price. I like Linksys but whatever you have to have to make sure firmware is up to date. I created a VPN out on Digital Ocean. That's pretty darn cool. I'm thinking of putting a Pi Hole in front of everything here. I want a really good edge device. Price for home use but I would love a Meraki. There stuff rocks! I use it at work. IDS, malware, firewall… Works well.

HouseOfBugs

Anyone using something like Adguard? I have 2 instances on each VLAN for DNS level ad blocking and malicious domain filtering.

kb9jlo

HouseOfBugs

I use the free, home version of OpenDNS, now Cisco Umbrella.

SparcV

I'm all ubiquiti here. I have a several switches, several APs, and a udm pro. Been generally happy with it

Jonzynator

Ubiquiti forever. I've converted my self to an entire Ubiquiti ecosystem and will never go back.

DocB_rown

I'm really done with crappy retail routers that aren't worth a damn (TP-Link, Linksys, ASUS). Of course now that I want to gut and re-do my entire home network, there isn't any Ubiquiti hardware to be found in stock anywhere - even the early access hardware is sold out. I like the new UDR in early access but prefer the UDM-Pro so I can build out additional components with PoE and cameras

staticlinerich

I like TPLink. I used to use Ubiquity products because of the compatibility with Linux. Linux has matured to the point where it will recognize what's OEM in most of the laptops I've gotten over the years. I also use TPLink USB wifi (N150) for my desktops. Can't be beat for 10 bucks and they have a minuscule footprint. They are super stable and require no kernel driver building for Debian based Linux.

RunDeckardRun

i have a pair of 5 port TP link network switches, might need to swap out for something larger down the road, but for a budget option they do the job

DocB_rown

So I went with a Ubitquiti Dream Machine, switches and AP and installed it late last week; wow - what a difference! I have unlimited 1Gb up/down on dedicated fiber to the house and for the first time I feel like I am getting full use of spectrum. Once I moved the 2.4GhZ to a different channel, (Insights worked well for this) it seems all my spotty ESP8266 devices are finally happy now too. I messed with so many retail routers (TPLink, ASUS, Netgear, Dlink) and never felt I had full control or was clunky at best.

The only thing I'm not satisfied with is the lack of a built-in DHCP server, so I still need to figure that part out.

I looked at their cameras, but not sold on them yet when my Amcrest+BlueIris solution is working well.

zchrykng

Ubiquiti gear for me. I actually just swapped a in a 48 port PoE switch for the 24 I was running before. Also the UDM Pro, and WiFi 6 access points. Have a few smaller PoE powered switches, like in the entertainment center.

For some small tasks I have a rack mounted thing for holding raspberry pis, so have two dedicated pis for Pi-hole instances that also provide addresses for my .internal addressing. One pi for Home Assistant and one for homebridge. Big media server for running Plex, Channels DVR, Sonarr, Radarr, Jackett, Deluge, my local CA, nginx reverse proxy for everything, Nextcloud, etc.

The Pi-holes point to Cloudflare's newer filtered DNS offering and then apply their own blocklists. Mostly have two so I can take one down for maintenance without the network losing DNS resolution.

I'm lucky and have AT&T fiber to the house which is a nice 1Gb/1Gb for 70USD/month. Using the wpa_supplicant method to bypass their hardware.