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What should I use to connect my AP's to the internet? (lemmy.zip)
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I have my AP's setup and all I need now is sine sort of firewall appliance. I am hopping to make it run openwrt as that's what I'm used to using. I'm looking at a nanopi but they seem expensive and overpowered to me. Is there a cheap alternative?

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[–] acceptable_pumpkin 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love my Pfsense Netgate appliance. May be overkill for your use case, but I split up my home vlans across different networks. You can then use on-device dns blocking for ads (like a piHole).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's way overkill and out of my price range

[–] TCB13 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The NanoPi R2S costs 25$ and does what you need. If you require more power maybe a Banana Pi R2 or Banana Pi R3 Mini?