About $15-20 cheaper than I've seen before.
Should be adequate for most home users.
Only AX1800, but the AX/WiFi 6 is on both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz channels.
Supported by OpenWRT and very easily installed. Allows various things like VPN and more.
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Unfortunately this device doesn't have USB. Does the 5G modem only have USB out, or does it have ethernet?
will it connect with a myrepublic technicolor router in a bridge mode or does it require another netgear router for that purpose?
If your technicolor router does bridge mode and has ethernet out, it should work just fine. That's a very common configuration. To be honest you probably don't even need to worry about bridge mode unless you are trying to use your PC as a server and access it from the outside world, as without bridge mode it's what they call a double-NAT configuration. I have a double-NAT setup which I kind of see as extra security was it also has double firewalls, though that's not really needed. Just turn the WiFi off on the technicolor. If you want to access it from outside with double-NAT you can use other solutions like Tailscale or CloudFlare Tunnels.
@rygle Do you have any idea about the speeds when wireguard vpn is installed via OpenWRT
Thanks.!
Hi, @fruit bro, I know that wireguard is faster than openvpn as the protocol has less overhead. I personally use Tailscale as it is built on wireguard but does all the hard stuff such as traversing NAT, double-NAT, firewalls etc very easily. I've installed Tailscale clients on my PCs but it can also be installed on routers or a variety of boxes such as raspberry pis. I haven't benchmarked it but I can stream videos OK.
I think speeds would be variable depending on your internet plan, router, time of day, distance to the box in the street (for many of us) and even software and firewall settings on routers and whether you're using things like hardware offloading etc.
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Would this work to share a Telstra 5G modem throughout the house with better Wi-Fi signal than I can get from the inbuilt Wi-Fi or am I looking at this device wrong and need something else entirely?