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Hardware and Performance / Re: Any recommendation for Access point.

« on: July 31, 2023, 03:37:02 am »

Otherwise go with OpenWRT and/or DDWRT, but it will be a much more involved experience finding the right router, flashing, configuring and upgrading it.

I don't understand this viewpoint.  It's not like Unifi is the only prosumer AP out there.  Why would you buy a consumer router specifically to flash and use as an AP?

I use a consumer router as an AP flashed with OpenWRT because I want my whole system to be running open source/free software.  The Unifi devices work very good and are very easy to setup and mange, but they are not open source/free.  Last time I used a Unifi Dream Machine it was pinging Google, Facebook and Twitter all day long to determine network latency and there was no way to turn that off.  It's these kind of things that lead me to PFSense and now OPNSense for my router. 

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Hardware and Performance / Realtek RTL8168H Support?

« on: July 31, 2023, 03:21:26 am »

Hi. 
I'm new to OPNSense.  I'm trying to determine if the Realtek RTL8168H NIC is support by OPNsense 23.1 or if additional drivers are needed.  I see a lot of discussions online about Linus, Realtek, PFSense and OPNSense but can't seem to cut through all the noise and get an accurate up-to-date answer to my question. 

Side note: I have a small network and only a 200MB Internet service so my needs aren't that demanding if that makes any difference.  I know its probably better to use an Intel NIC but I already have hardware with the Realtek NIC and I'd like to use that if I could. Thank you.