Router failure. Any advice on what to do or replace it with?

[nelw]

Hi everyone

In the middle of the night I think my Edgerouter Lite died. This is in fact the second one that I’ve gone through. I’m guessing it’s the USB failure problem striking again.  I am not capable of reimaging the USB stick to fix it and much rather buy a replacement. 
 

Here is the layout of my home network. Please excuse my poor penmanship. 
 

https://i.imgur.com/S1qwq49.jpg

 

Fiber “modem” goes into the now-dead edgerouter and that goes into a switch. This is in my coat closet. From here it passes through my condos walls into the living room and my office via Ethernet. 

 

Can anyone help me address this? Do I simply have to buy a 200-300 wifi router and use it only for its routing capability?  There doesn’t seem to be any good performing non-wifi routers in the market. 

 

I am super hesitant to buy another Ubiquiti. First one lasted 4 years before dying.

[tkitch]

uhhhh why would you have to drop 200+ on a router?  

 

You can get completely functional gigabit routers for well under 100 bucks.  Advanced WiFi features add $ generally.

 

(Hell the edgerouter lite can be bought for 135 online right now, so you absolutely do NOT have to spend 200-300 bucks.)

[nelw]

Sure. Is there a well recommended reliable gigabit router where I can take off the antenna?

[BondiBlue]

Do you have a need for any advanced features that wouldn't be found on a consumer router? 

[nelw]

No particularly advanced features. 

[Donut417]

7 hours ago, nelw said:

Hi everyone

In the middle of the night I think my Edgerouter Lite died. This is in fact the second one that I’ve gone through. I’m guessing it’s the USB failure problem striking again.  I am not capable of reimaging the USB stick to fix it and much rather buy a replacement. 
 

Here is the layout of my home network. Please excuse my poor penmanship. 
 

https://i.imgur.com/S1qwq49.jpg

 

Fiber “modem” goes into the now-dead edgerouter and that goes into a switch. This is in my coat closet. From here it passes through my condos walls into the living room and my office via Ethernet. 

 

Can anyone help me address this? Do I simply have to buy a 200-300 wifi router and use it only for its routing capability?  There doesn’t seem to be any good performing non-wifi routers in the market. 

 

I am super hesitant to buy another Ubiquiti. First one lasted 4 years before dying.

 

It depends on how fast your internet is. If you only have like 200 Mbps, then any old router off the shelf will work. If you have Gigabit Fiber on the other hand, most routers don't have the LAN to WAN or WAN to LAN throughput to do Gigabit. So you then have to find those numbers and verify it can in fact support Gigabit. 

 

The other side of this IF you have some old PC hardware laying around you could just build a PFsense box. Essentially it will do your routing, Firewall, NAT and DHCP. It wont support wireless but I dont think you really need wireless in your closet. PFsense is a $0 solution as long as you have the hardware.