Phoenix.Router

C’mon, someone had to say it.

Mikrotik with Terraform is priceless. So so so good. You can rollback to any state really quickly and even provision everything from scratch in seconds.

I have a Turris Omnia, which runs an OS based on OpenWrt out of the box. You can install OpenWrt instead, if you prefer (I’m fine with Turris OS). In either case, you can configure all kinds of packages for VPN, NAS, NextCloud, and much more.

The distributed firewall they mention is disabled by default.

They just announced a newer model called Omnia NG. There’s also a modular system called Mox.

The documentation has much more information about the hardware and software.

if you misspell a number somewhere, good luck

True. Complex configurations are best verified – if not applied – by scripts.

what is their main selling point? (Are they open source? Aimed at businesses/data centres?)

Closed source. They primarily cater to the consumer and SME segments. Once RouterOS basics are mastered, value for money is unsurpassed. An inexpensive Beelink machine can, for instance, match the capabilities of a premium router. A Proxmox VM can provide anything one might want to achieve on a cloud server. These selling points may be irrelevant to large enterprises, but they are important to the masses.

additional 5Ghz channels for the UK market?

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For my internet provider internet access, I use a GPON from Intelbras model Onu R1 in bridge mode, I use it instead of the modem/router provided by my internet provider since theirs sucks (it wouldn’t even allow me to put it in bridge mode).

For the Firewall, I use a small minipc with a Intel J4125 with Pfsense installed.

And finally, for the router/mesh I use the Netgear Orbi Pro wifi 6, pretty good router IMO allowing you to setup vlans etc.

All things regarding VPN, security, etc I configure directly in Pfsense.

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