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Good points – I’ve never ran into any issues with UniFi personally.

At the time I was self-hosting the UniFi Controller on my Proxmox server for a switch and an AP. So i suppose your mileage may vary with UniFi.

As far as routers go, I’ve been running a pfsense for a while and its been great. There is definitely a bit of a learning curve and it’s not something that I’d recommend to someone who has little networking knowledge. Once you understand how to work with it, there is very little you can’t do.

Mikrotik has pop-ed up on my radar recently too, might have to give them a look.

Edit: Phrasing.

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I second everything said here.

UniFi is a good starting place, and pfsense is good if you really want to dig in.