First, some details on my current situation:
* I live in an apartment that I own
* I have So-Net å…‰ with an ONU that sits in the shoes closet of the genkan next to the fusebox
* My apartment is cabled with shitty CAT5e (no 10G LAN for me I guess) with one or two plugs in each room, all connected to a cheapo switch in the same closet in the genkan
* I have a wired-only TP-Link VPN router in the closet between the ONU and the switch, I like that it’s small and that the config interface is decent and in English but it’s PPPoE only so WAN speeds are not the best
* I have an old Apple AirPort Extreme in the living room setup in bridge mode to act as a wifi AP, I like that it looks decent on the TV board but signal is sorta weak in the bathroom and kids bedroom at the other side of the apartment
I’m thinking of upgrading my setup to hopefully get better speed with DSlite/V6plus and take advantage of more modern wifi 6E features.
So I’m looking ideally for a similar setup with a small wired-only router in the closet and some decent looking access point in the living and maybe an extra one in the bedroom (something in the TP-Link Deco series for example).
But I cannot for the life of me find a wired-only router that supports DSlite/V6plus. The only routers I can find are shit boxes from Buffalo/NEC or some horrible tentacle monster like TP-Link Archer with a thousand antennas. I don’t want my wifi in the closet obviously and it probably wouldn’t fit anyway.
Any recommendations?
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Yamaha RTX810/830/NVR510 support all domestic IPoE services and can be had online for less than 30000 yen used.
It’s telnet configuration interface takes a bit of time to get used to (but it’s been same for decades, so those who’ve been using it are familiar) and the online documentation and examples etc are very easy to follow.
For 6E access point, you can go with one of the mid-tier buffalo boxes and just run it in access point/bridge mode, usually there’s a physical button to make it AP-only.
There was another thread with list of routers you could use but maybe you wanna go with Asus Or Synology that supports those standards, so you can get better English interfaces. Throw in a UniFi PoE switch or two and add a couple of UniFi wifi6 APs and blanket the apartment with good wifi.
You can sometimes run 10g on cat5e if the run is short but probably 2.5G is better.