Request: I’m looking for something with high reliability rather than high speed. It needs to support 30+ devices.
Additional information: My house is about 30m (100ft) long, and the internet comes in by ethernet at one end of it. I’m happy to use a Wi-Fi extender if needed.
Context:
I’ve been having issues with both my current and previous routers. Devices are randomly unable to communicate over the network for several seconds at a time. Both ethernet and Wi-Fi are affected.
I live in Australia, so even the slowest router should be more than fast enough.
I have a large number of automated devices that need to stay connected at all times - even 5 second network dropouts are difficult to deal with. Internet dropouts are handled gracefully.
Any suggestions are gratefully received.
The problem with for life products in this segment is that technical advancements come quickly and make old stuff obsolete not due to breakage but because your requirements might have changed beyond what you have now.
That said I am somewhat content with my Fritzbox 4790. It’s still getting regular updates. Same thing with my Ubiquity wifi access points.
But I sometimes would like to have the peace of mind of OpenWRT compatibility.