This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Thus assuring the American public of using shitty American made junk filled with who knows what spyware, and paying two or three times what the piece of junk is worth.
So... who's getting the kickbacks out of this deal? Let me guess... does it wear a lot of orange makeup?
I'll just keep building my own
Good luck Americans!
So this may be a good place to ask. With this news in mind does anyone have a good guide to follow to build your own router. I’ve read a little that a mini pc with more than one Ethernet port is the only requirement but I haven’t found any good guides yet, only articles on why you should.
If you search for "install OPNsense" or "install PFsense" you'll find quite a few guides. It's not difficult to get going with these, but you should expect a bit of a learning curve if you're coming from preconfigured home routers. It's worth it though: these are far more powerful systems than regular home router software and give you much more control and advanced features like VLANs and intrusion detection.
I have done a couple similar setups. Fun facts: cell towers have asymmetrical signal and if you are too close, your signal is bad. Those are hard ones to explain to farmers that have towers installed on their properties.
Landom of free!
glad a built my own last year.
