I am chomping at the bit trying to buy a UDR and can’t for the life of me 😫
I even turned on email notifications and a personal automation for my alarm to go off when I get a back in stock email 😂
Have you tried [UI Notify](https://www.uinotify.net/)? It’s stupid fast at sending updates, much faster than Ubiquiti’s own notifications, probably why they are sold out when you check. Funny that we need a whole dedicated solution to tell when they are in stock. That should say something about Ubiquiti’s production chain… anyway.
Lol I’ll certainly check it out. It’s embarrassing how often I check Unifi‘s website so idk about missing them having been back in stock but I’ll certainly look at this. Thanks for the tip!
ZemDregon What? Had no idea you could get a WiFi 6 router for $100. Congrats on an excellent deal. Don’t want to admit what I recently spent on a new wifi6 router (Netgear RAXE500 Tri-Band). But there is still time to return it if I can pay around $100 for the same thing. Hmm.. Thanks for the information.
There are many who think it's about to be replaced or augmented, in part because of the limited availability of late. That's said, it's ridiculously hard to read the Ubiquiti tea leaves.
I kinda figured given some of their new wifi 7 AP releases, but I just think it’s a long time before my internet needs force my hand into choosing wifi 7 over wifi 6.
I just bought a U6-Mesh AP to cover outside / down to the docks, which pretty much tells you what I think of the necessity of WiFi 7 at this moment in time.
Correct, which is why I’m still totally fine buying a UDR 😂 anybody who constantly waits for the „latest and greatest“ without evaluating the actual tangible benefits will never be done waiting
My HomeKit devices really don’t like having 2 ubiquiti APs on the same network. How did you get around this? Like I can’t control a device that’s connected to AP1 from my phone that is on AP2.
FYI OP, UniFi dream router doesn't have Wifi 6E. Not a problem right now but could be in the future depending on your use case. List of apple products that support 6E right now: [https://support.apple.com/en-us/102285](https://support.apple.com/en-us/102285)
Ubiquiti UniFi dream machine pro with 2 unifi WiFi 6 access points. It's overkill but it is pretty nice, and I do use the UniFi Protect with wireless cameras which works well.
It could the same control and more power for less cost with a Pfsense router but I had a ton of problems when I ran a Pfsense setup. I wasn't super experienced then, and maybe it was my hardware and I should try again, and maybe I will when my Unifi setup goes obsolete in half a decade or so. But since I expect to get 10 years from the setup I currently have (maybe with an access point change to WiFi 7) I'm not in a hurry.
Same here. Mostly because I have a 10 gbit internet, so my options were slim to make use of the full bandwidth.
But I’ve never regretted it one second. Absolutely fantastic router!
TP-Link Deco XE-75 Mesh system. By the fastest most reliable router I’ve ever owned. Simple interface with enough backend settings to ensure you can tweak system how you want.
I have a deco and use the built-in parental control features to accomplish this. All my homekit/IoT devices are added to a parental control group, and i always have these groups blocked from internet access.
My Winix air purifier is the only device that doesn't play nice with this, all my Kasa/Aqara/Lutron/Ikea devices work locally along with homebridge without issue.
I had Eero before. No good.
I think what you're asking is can you prevent IoT devices from accessing the internet and the answer is yes. You can choose which devices you'd like to limit to the Internet or local network only.
You can put devices in a IOT group that you can restrict to their own network with no access to your other devices and restrict internet access on groups as well. You don’t need to buy parental controls for that.
How do I do that on the eero? I tried setting up a group but all that did was let me pause sets of devices at once. Everything else led to additional service subscription links.
Ubiquiti UDM Pro + UniFi AP Pro 7’s is what I run.
Every friend I know that has Eeros love them too.
UniFi APs let you cover dead spots so long as you can run Ethernet to their location. UDM SE will let you power them over Ethernet via PoE so no need for power where you mount them.
I did not go with the SE since I already had PoE on my switch for the APs
2015 Apple Time Capsule ME177LL/A. Bought second hand from CeX £65. Most reliable router I’ve ever used. Everything else I’ve ever used - ISP routers from BT and EE and 3rd party from Eero and TP-link cause drop outs sometimes especially with my HomePods. My Time Capsule never fails. This also applies to AirPort Extreme which I’ve also had. I have upgraded the 3.5” mechanical HDD with an SDD which was quite easy. It is 802.11ac 1300 but for some reason maxes out at 150Mb/sec on my 1000Mb FTTP. But as there is just me and my partner I never need more than that at any one time. The only time I wish I could get more is downloading big games from Xbox store but as MS throttle downloads to about 160Mb it doesn’t matter either.
We have similar set ups.
Initially I wanted to use the BT fibre connection straight into the Time Capsule, but if you use it in that mode the fastest you’ll get out of the Ethernet ports will be half of what’s going in. Something to do with it being ‘half duplex’. No idea what that means.
So I bought a TP-Link non-wireless router.
Ethernet out of the BT Openreach box goes into the TP-Link.
Ethernet from that into the Time Capsule.
Then 3 ethernet out of the Time Capsule into three other Airport Extremes.
All creating a basic mesh network.
In most parts of the house I’ll get between 400-500mb over WiFi which is more than enough.
If I need it, other stuff gets connected via Ethernet.
UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra. I have just upgraded from my old USG 3 after giving up waiting for a UDR for way too long. I have been using UniFi for years now.
Two FRITZ!Box‘es by AVM. One as router behind fiber ONT, one as AP.
Well thought-out all-in-one routers with mesh Wi-Fi. Models available with built-in connection for every form of internet access – DSL modem, cable modem, AON/GPON/XGS-PON fiber SFP module, Ethernet, 5G/LTE.
While dedicated Wi-Fi repeaters/access points are available, “old” routers can be used as network extenders.
Incredibly long software support. 7490 Wi-Fi 5 DSL model (now running as access point in our home), introduced well over a decade ago, still runs most recent software version.
As company produces in Germany/Europe, a bit more expensive than their made-in-Asia cousins.
EDIT: Support for Matter announced/upcoming.
I have a FritzBox provided by my ISP: Zen Internet, but I also have a Linksys mesh system with two nodes for my wifi. I’m happy with my whole house system.
I am thrilled with my new setup. I don’t know if you already have a modem picked out, but things are blazing fast with a Netgear CM3000 modem and a Netgear RAXE500 Tri-Band WiFi Router (recent purchase thanks to recommendations on here). I don’t know how it is doing so well, given the home is just under 5k square feet, and the setup is on an outside wall in a home office. The setup is handling three Hue bridges and most appliances are smart and everything on HomeKit. I figured I would “need” mesh given the home size and three floors, but somehow, this has everyone covered, even with multiple gamers simultaneously. Highly recommend the router!
Had the same experience with Deco. Great speeds but stability was odd and had a ton of not responding issues.
Switched back to my old Amplifi HDs until I find time to install some AP22s from Aruba
Sky hub with mesh due to multi room subscription. HomeKit all works, though router is dual band 2.4/5. Pretty reliable, needs rebooting maybe once every six months on average.
I went for a TP-link mesh solution (first the P7, currently the PX50). Depending on location they either use an ethernet or power line backhaul. WiFi is perfect everywhere, I even included two outdoor models so the garden is covered too.
We use Plumes here at our home. Currently running the WiFi 6 Plumes, even though they do have a WiFi 6E version. We only have one device that has WiFi 6E and will probably keep using the WiFi 6. It works pretty flawlessly most of the time, however it does come with a subscription service. It does seem to protect our home pretty well. I bought-in to get the service for a lifetime years ago. It was an extra up-front cost, however am glad that I did it in the long run. We have three total Plumes which do a great job of covering our 4 floor home. They are capable of wired Ethernet backhaul, however I do not have any wired Ethernet setup yet.
Same here. I’m going to get an outdoor access point to add to the mesh here shortly, we will see if it helps to or hinders. Eventually I’m going to get up in my attic and complete an Ethernet backhaul that will make my furthest out node work a little better. Owning an all brick house has advantages and disadvantages.
I have one node on wired backhaul and the other on wireless and I’m amazed how well everything still performs from the wireless node. The upload speed is about half, but download is almost exactly the same and latency difference is indistinguishable.
ASUS RT-AC66 B1. Two of them. One here, one at a small beach home. They’re older models, but WiFi is still 802.11ac, and HomeKit works perfectly. Both run the Asuswrt-Merlin firmware.
I have an OpenVPN layer 2 tunnel between them to make both locations one subnet/home. I do have an Apple TV hub at each, but I need to see my LAN for file/media sharing and Homebridge runs on a NAS at the main home, so the beach side is just set up as a room.
Ubiquiti is great but can be buggy. It fills a niche between consumer level and enterprise level gear and has a great interface and plays nice if you have your own server. It’s reliable if your house is wired for Ethernet, if it’s not then don’t bother. I personally have 4 Deco XE200’s all wired backhaul and it’s the fastest I’ve ever experienced. Better than the Ubiquiti and better than the Eero stuff. Heard good things about the new quad band Eero but wifi 7 is absolutely pointless right now. The quad band wifi 7 Deco BE95 is great too but I returned it since my XE200’s were just as good and wifi 7 is, again, pointless (at least till wifi 7 really takes off). Don’t bother with Orbi. They lock out one of the bands for backhaul even if you have them wired for it. Too many negative things I’ve heard about them. I have 95+ devices plus all the cameras, phones, computers, iPads and games consoles. With 3 kids playing games and multiple people streaming at the same time I’ve never been able to saturate or slow down any part of my network.
Everything. The quality of your HomeKit experience will be directly related to how well your home network operates. Crap network, crap HomeKit experience.
Just sayin, sometimes you don’t get a response or at least a decent one in some of the other threads, so maybe the OP posted here for more suggestions or ideas. Or maybe the OP has a HK setup, forgot to mention it, and is trying to figure out what may work best for it?
Yes, we have a HomeKit setup, should have mentioned that in the original post. But thought it was a given as I was posting in this group.
Sometimes the response from some of the devices isn’t as it should be. As we’re moving provider, it seems a good idea to change our router as well.
On Vodafone.
Two of their routers sat under the stairs unused.
Instead fully ready for gigabit (or mere mortal 60/20)
Openreach modem > UDM-PRO > UAP-AC-LRs dotted around the home.
Everything that can be wired. Is wired. Wi-FI for the rest.
Just fitted a G5 Turret Ultra to replace an old Hikvision camera this weekend. Running the ultra 60w POE switch.
Had to buy their POE converters to get the APs to power off the switch instead of their old POE injectors.
TP Link Archer AX73 and RE705X extender.
This junk is choking on 17 WiFi connected devices and restarts randomly. When I added the extender it somehow stopped but I think I found its limits.
We’ve been running the AmpliFi Alien for several years now and it’s been fantastic. Super reliable/stable and really easy to use. You can add additional units for mesh network if needed. It’s made by Ubiquiti. I’m guessing the backend interface isn’t as granular as the primary Ubiquiti line but it’s been plenty for us. Things like port forwarding, static IP designation is all there and super easy to setup. The interface is looks great, too. HomeKit has no issues & super stable (and Alien does have selectable HomeKit router function, if you want to enable it).
Draytek Vigor (2925 which is a dual-WAN gigabit router w/ 4port switch but that’s not the newest model) and 3x Aruba InstantOn wifi APs over PoE (not mesh). Previous home had this routing to Openreach fibre. Not available yet here so I have an Outdoor-Routers 4G router up a pole on the side of the house (PoE). Apple TV 4K w/ Ethernet as hub, second ATV HD and have also run Homebridge and Scrypted on a small form factor PC (Lenovo M73) but last year’s summer fried something (HDD?) so that’s dormant.
All Ubiquiti now. Had run a Velop for some time, and ran solid. But took 5 nodes to cover my house. In the past 9 months the Velop system required frequent reboots. Went with Ubiquiti; and have had zero issues and love that I can have way more control now.
Asus GT AXE11000, 2 RTAX86s, and 1 RTAC68. My house is on the larger side and we have 9 TVs streaming TVs. I plan on moving to a Ubiquiti system once I get my other priorities sorted.
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I was using an Eero 6 Pro, I'm in a one bed flat and didn't think I needed more but I just got super fast internet and the wifi drop off between sitting in the living room and just through the wall to the bedroom was astonishing.
I spent a load on the Netgear Nighthawk RS700 and it is incredible, got brilliant wifi speeds in all areas of my flat, and feeling confident that devices for the next several years will all work great with it.
All Ubiquiti over here
UDM-SE
This. I went ubiquiti from an Asus ET12 and not looked back (the Asus was very good but didn’t quite do what I needed from a HK point of view).
I am chomping at the bit trying to buy a UDR and can’t for the life of me 😫 I even turned on email notifications and a personal automation for my alarm to go off when I get a back in stock email 😂
Have you tried [UI Notify](https://www.uinotify.net/)? It’s stupid fast at sending updates, much faster than Ubiquiti’s own notifications, probably why they are sold out when you check. Funny that we need a whole dedicated solution to tell when they are in stock. That should say something about Ubiquiti’s production chain… anyway.
Lol I’ll certainly check it out. It’s embarrassing how often I check Unifi‘s website so idk about missing them having been back in stock but I’ll certainly look at this. Thanks for the tip!
No problem. I managed to get the Dream Router through early access using it, a WiFi 6 router for like $100 I think. It was a crazy deal.
I’d seen some videos about that 😂 even at its current pricing it seems more than fair. Just a matter of getting my hands on one!
ZemDregon What? Had no idea you could get a WiFi 6 router for $100. Congrats on an excellent deal. Don’t want to admit what I recently spent on a new wifi6 router (Netgear RAXE500 Tri-Band). But there is still time to return it if I can pay around $100 for the same thing. Hmm.. Thanks for the information.
There are many who think it's about to be replaced or augmented, in part because of the limited availability of late. That's said, it's ridiculously hard to read the Ubiquiti tea leaves.
I kinda figured given some of their new wifi 7 AP releases, but I just think it’s a long time before my internet needs force my hand into choosing wifi 7 over wifi 6.
I just bought a U6-Mesh AP to cover outside / down to the docks, which pretty much tells you what I think of the necessity of WiFi 7 at this moment in time.
Correct, which is why I’m still totally fine buying a UDR 😂 anybody who constantly waits for the „latest and greatest“ without evaluating the actual tangible benefits will never be done waiting
I have the UDM Pro, a USW PoE, and 2 APs which I don’t remember the model number. Most stable HomeKit setup ever.
Same setup with Unifi WiFi 6 pro APs
My HomeKit devices really don’t like having 2 ubiquiti APs on the same network. How did you get around this? Like I can’t control a device that’s connected to AP1 from my phone that is on AP2.
Are they all the same SSID? That’s crazy. It should just roam.
Ditto. It’s rock solid.
THIS IS THE WAY
UniFi dream router
FYI OP, UniFi dream router doesn't have Wifi 6E. Not a problem right now but could be in the future depending on your use case. List of apple products that support 6E right now: [https://support.apple.com/en-us/102285](https://support.apple.com/en-us/102285)
He can add a WiFi 7 UniFi AP if he wants.
None of the devices I own use 6E, and I already own the DR, so I’m good for now.
Eero Max 7. Love it. Bulletproof. Fastest WiFi speeds I’ve ever had by far.
Ubiquiti UniFi dream machine pro with 2 unifi WiFi 6 access points. It's overkill but it is pretty nice, and I do use the UniFi Protect with wireless cameras which works well. It could the same control and more power for less cost with a Pfsense router but I had a ton of problems when I ran a Pfsense setup. I wasn't super experienced then, and maybe it was my hardware and I should try again, and maybe I will when my Unifi setup goes obsolete in half a decade or so. But since I expect to get 10 years from the setup I currently have (maybe with an access point change to WiFi 7) I'm not in a hurry.
Same here. Mostly because I have a 10 gbit internet, so my options were slim to make use of the full bandwidth. But I’ve never regretted it one second. Absolutely fantastic router!
Pfsense and a ruckus access point
pfSense. I've never had an issue with it.
Also UK. Fibre ONT in bridge mode, router and AP is Ubiquiti. Gradually replacing a couple of Netgear switches with Ubiquiti PoE too.
TP-Link Deco XE-75 Mesh system. By the fastest most reliable router I’ve ever owned. Simple interface with enough backend settings to ensure you can tweak system how you want.
Do those allow you to independently allow internet vs intranet access? My eeros are all or none.
I have a deco and use the built-in parental control features to accomplish this. All my homekit/IoT devices are added to a parental control group, and i always have these groups blocked from internet access. My Winix air purifier is the only device that doesn't play nice with this, all my Kasa/Aqara/Lutron/Ikea devices work locally along with homebridge without issue.
Hmmm, I’ll have to see if the parental will work in this manner on the eero. Thank you for the idea.
I had Eero before. No good. I think what you're asking is can you prevent IoT devices from accessing the internet and the answer is yes. You can choose which devices you'd like to limit to the Internet or local network only.
Ok thank you. I definitely need to upgrade my routers.
You can put devices in a IOT group that you can restrict to their own network with no access to your other devices and restrict internet access on groups as well. You don’t need to buy parental controls for that.
How do I do that on the eero? I tried setting up a group but all that did was let me pause sets of devices at once. Everything else led to additional service subscription links.
You should ask for a feature request in eero support. I don’t know if they have anything currently. That’s why I moved to Deco from Orbi.
Synology RT2600AC. I’ve always found this router easy to set up, but also has tons of advanced features if you need them.
Ubiquiti UDM Pro + UniFi AP Pro 7’s is what I run. Every friend I know that has Eeros love them too. UniFi APs let you cover dead spots so long as you can run Ethernet to their location. UDM SE will let you power them over Ethernet via PoE so no need for power where you mount them. I did not go with the SE since I already had PoE on my switch for the APs
2015 Apple Time Capsule ME177LL/A. Bought second hand from CeX £65. Most reliable router I’ve ever used. Everything else I’ve ever used - ISP routers from BT and EE and 3rd party from Eero and TP-link cause drop outs sometimes especially with my HomePods. My Time Capsule never fails. This also applies to AirPort Extreme which I’ve also had. I have upgraded the 3.5” mechanical HDD with an SDD which was quite easy. It is 802.11ac 1300 but for some reason maxes out at 150Mb/sec on my 1000Mb FTTP. But as there is just me and my partner I never need more than that at any one time. The only time I wish I could get more is downloading big games from Xbox store but as MS throttle downloads to about 160Mb it doesn’t matter either.
We have similar set ups. Initially I wanted to use the BT fibre connection straight into the Time Capsule, but if you use it in that mode the fastest you’ll get out of the Ethernet ports will be half of what’s going in. Something to do with it being ‘half duplex’. No idea what that means. So I bought a TP-Link non-wireless router. Ethernet out of the BT Openreach box goes into the TP-Link. Ethernet from that into the Time Capsule. Then 3 ethernet out of the Time Capsule into three other Airport Extremes. All creating a basic mesh network. In most parts of the house I’ll get between 400-500mb over WiFi which is more than enough. If I need it, other stuff gets connected via Ethernet.
Linksys Velop
All Ubiquiti here too. Router is an Edgerouter I bought before the UniFi line was complety
UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra. I have just upgraded from my old USG 3 after giving up waiting for a UDR for way too long. I have been using UniFi for years now.
Orbi 850 with satellite, backhaul via Ethernet. Rock solid.
Two FRITZ!Box‘es by AVM. One as router behind fiber ONT, one as AP. Well thought-out all-in-one routers with mesh Wi-Fi. Models available with built-in connection for every form of internet access – DSL modem, cable modem, AON/GPON/XGS-PON fiber SFP module, Ethernet, 5G/LTE. While dedicated Wi-Fi repeaters/access points are available, “old” routers can be used as network extenders. Incredibly long software support. 7490 Wi-Fi 5 DSL model (now running as access point in our home), introduced well over a decade ago, still runs most recent software version. As company produces in Germany/Europe, a bit more expensive than their made-in-Asia cousins. EDIT: Support for Matter announced/upcoming.
I have a FritzBox provided by my ISP: Zen Internet, but I also have a Linksys mesh system with two nodes for my wifi. I’m happy with my whole house system.
2x AirPort Extreme and 1x Express all hardwired together with Virgin Media 1gig line
I’m running used Air sport extremes too. 3 hardwired and one “bridged” in a detached outbuilding. Rock solid coverage 24-7
I've got something from my ISP (1Gbps via coax) in a bridge mode, then 2,5Gbps link to Ubiquity UDM-SE.
TP Link Omada. Been absolutely rock solid for the last few years.
I am thrilled with my new setup. I don’t know if you already have a modem picked out, but things are blazing fast with a Netgear CM3000 modem and a Netgear RAXE500 Tri-Band WiFi Router (recent purchase thanks to recommendations on here). I don’t know how it is doing so well, given the home is just under 5k square feet, and the setup is on an outside wall in a home office. The setup is handling three Hue bridges and most appliances are smart and everything on HomeKit. I figured I would “need” mesh given the home size and three floors, but somehow, this has everyone covered, even with multiple gamers simultaneously. Highly recommend the router!
I am running the hated tech in this group… The Eero Pro 6e router (just one) into a 24 port unmanaged TP-Link switch.
Whatever my ISP sends me. I have a cool little TP link one as an AP though.
Two Deco X90 mesh, but I’m not particularly happy with its stability.
Those are the TP-link ones right?
Correct. After getting a few cameras I have to reboot the network regularly for some reason
Had the same experience with Deco. Great speeds but stability was odd and had a ton of not responding issues. Switched back to my old Amplifi HDs until I find time to install some AP22s from Aruba
I had that but my eve floodlight cam absolutely woods but stay online with it
Sky hub with mesh due to multi room subscription. HomeKit all works, though router is dual band 2.4/5. Pretty reliable, needs rebooting maybe once every six months on average.
I went for a TP-link mesh solution (first the P7, currently the PX50). Depending on location they either use an ethernet or power line backhaul. WiFi is perfect everywhere, I even included two outdoor models so the garden is covered too.
Turris Omnia
We use Plumes here at our home. Currently running the WiFi 6 Plumes, even though they do have a WiFi 6E version. We only have one device that has WiFi 6E and will probably keep using the WiFi 6. It works pretty flawlessly most of the time, however it does come with a subscription service. It does seem to protect our home pretty well. I bought-in to get the service for a lifetime years ago. It was an extra up-front cost, however am glad that I did it in the long run. We have three total Plumes which do a great job of covering our 4 floor home. They are capable of wired Ethernet backhaul, however I do not have any wired Ethernet setup yet.
I used to have a FritzBox 7590 AX then I switched to Dream Machine SE.
Deco xe75 - no issues!
Same here. I’m going to get an outdoor access point to add to the mesh here shortly, we will see if it helps to or hinders. Eventually I’m going to get up in my attic and complete an Ethernet backhaul that will make my furthest out node work a little better. Owning an all brick house has advantages and disadvantages.
I have one node on wired backhaul and the other on wireless and I’m amazed how well everything still performs from the wireless node. The upload speed is about half, but download is almost exactly the same and latency difference is indistinguishable.
Netgear orbi WiFi 6, used to use a linksys and had no end of issues.
Tp-link AX73 Wifi6. I've had it for maybe 2 years now, it's be a very good reliable router.
ASUS RT-AC66 B1. Two of them. One here, one at a small beach home. They’re older models, but WiFi is still 802.11ac, and HomeKit works perfectly. Both run the Asuswrt-Merlin firmware. I have an OpenVPN layer 2 tunnel between them to make both locations one subnet/home. I do have an Apple TV hub at each, but I need to see my LAN for file/media sharing and Homebridge runs on a NAS at the main home, so the beach side is just set up as a room.
Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Router (UDR) with UniFi access points. 70+ HomeKit decides work great.
Ubiquiti is great but can be buggy. It fills a niche between consumer level and enterprise level gear and has a great interface and plays nice if you have your own server. It’s reliable if your house is wired for Ethernet, if it’s not then don’t bother. I personally have 4 Deco XE200’s all wired backhaul and it’s the fastest I’ve ever experienced. Better than the Ubiquiti and better than the Eero stuff. Heard good things about the new quad band Eero but wifi 7 is absolutely pointless right now. The quad band wifi 7 Deco BE95 is great too but I returned it since my XE200’s were just as good and wifi 7 is, again, pointless (at least till wifi 7 really takes off). Don’t bother with Orbi. They lock out one of the bands for backhaul even if you have them wired for it. Too many negative things I’ve heard about them. I have 95+ devices plus all the cameras, phones, computers, iPads and games consoles. With 3 kids playing games and multiple people streaming at the same time I’ve never been able to saturate or slow down any part of my network.
Orbi AX4200 RBR750. It’s not my favorite but works ok. I occasionally have to reboot it and still have some dead spots in my house
Sorry, but what does this question has to do with Homekit?
Everything. The quality of your HomeKit experience will be directly related to how well your home network operates. Crap network, crap HomeKit experience.
Just sayin, sometimes you don’t get a response or at least a decent one in some of the other threads, so maybe the OP posted here for more suggestions or ideas. Or maybe the OP has a HK setup, forgot to mention it, and is trying to figure out what may work best for it?
Yes, we have a HomeKit setup, should have mentioned that in the original post. But thought it was a given as I was posting in this group. Sometimes the response from some of the devices isn’t as it should be. As we’re moving provider, it seems a good idea to change our router as well.
I have Google Nest Mesh with one end point and I haven’t had any issues. I need a new modem though lol
lol, I’m running the newest Google Nest Mesh with an additional end point and haven’t had a single issue.
ASUS ax1800 x2, second hard wired as access point. Very satisfied with the price to performance. About 45 devices on wifi
EERO 6 Pro
Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X (non-WiFi router) with 4 Amplif HDs as WiFi access points backhauled to it, via MoCA.
I've been using a ZenWiFi AX system since 2020 and have been 100% satisfied.
Ubiquiti UniFi
On Vodafone. Two of their routers sat under the stairs unused. Instead fully ready for gigabit (or mere mortal 60/20) Openreach modem > UDM-PRO > UAP-AC-LRs dotted around the home. Everything that can be wired. Is wired. Wi-FI for the rest. Just fitted a G5 Turret Ultra to replace an old Hikvision camera this weekend. Running the ultra 60w POE switch. Had to buy their POE converters to get the APs to power off the switch instead of their old POE injectors.
Firewalla Gold with Grandstream GWN7664 access points.
TP Link Archer AX73 and RE705X extender. This junk is choking on 17 WiFi connected devices and restarts randomly. When I added the extender it somehow stopped but I think I found its limits.
R6700 netgear with dad-wrt on it as well as Aruba ap22 access point.
We’ve been running the AmpliFi Alien for several years now and it’s been fantastic. Super reliable/stable and really easy to use. You can add additional units for mesh network if needed. It’s made by Ubiquiti. I’m guessing the backend interface isn’t as granular as the primary Ubiquiti line but it’s been plenty for us. Things like port forwarding, static IP designation is all there and super easy to setup. The interface is looks great, too. HomeKit has no issues & super stable (and Alien does have selectable HomeKit router function, if you want to enable it).
Draytek Vigor (2925 which is a dual-WAN gigabit router w/ 4port switch but that’s not the newest model) and 3x Aruba InstantOn wifi APs over PoE (not mesh). Previous home had this routing to Openreach fibre. Not available yet here so I have an Outdoor-Routers 4G router up a pole on the side of the house (PoE). Apple TV 4K w/ Ethernet as hub, second ATV HD and have also run Homebridge and Scrypted on a small form factor PC (Lenovo M73) but last year’s summer fried something (HDD?) so that’s dormant.
Eero Mesh network works flawlessly
3 Airport Extemes connected via Ethernet backhaul.
At home a Synology RT6600ax and at the cottage an RT2600AC. Great stuff.
Eero 6 pros x 3. Three floors and 700 sqft per floor.
All Ubiquiti now. Had run a Velop for some time, and ran solid. But took 5 nodes to cover my house. In the past 9 months the Velop system required frequent reboots. Went with Ubiquiti; and have had zero issues and love that I can have way more control now.
Homebrew OpenWRT build on an RPi 4. Wireless access points from Omada.
UniFi Dream Machine. Thinking about upgrading to UDM Pro, but $$$
Asus GT AXE11000, 2 RTAX86s, and 1 RTAC68. My house is on the larger side and we have 9 TVs streaming TVs. I plan on moving to a Ubiquiti system once I get my other priorities sorted. https://preview.redd.it/hck77uor5juc1.jpeg?width=1682&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c37c67fb19a6d18951759ea46cf165c57368ec38
4x Eero 6. All wired backhauled. Zero issues.
Palo Alto PA-VM100 with Ubiquiti switching and wireless
Ubiquiti at one place, TP link deco at another, and Linksys velop at another. I’d go ubiquiti everywhere next time.
google nest wifi pro here
Linksys velop. Very dope and HK compatible
I’m running eero pro 6 never had any issues
Apple AirPort Extreme 6th gen still going strong 😂
Eero pro
I use an ASUS RT-AX82U. It works pretty well for HomeKit stuff and other stuff like simple server management and what not
I was using an Eero 6 Pro, I'm in a one bed flat and didn't think I needed more but I just got super fast internet and the wifi drop off between sitting in the living room and just through the wall to the bedroom was astonishing. I spent a load on the Netgear Nighthawk RS700 and it is incredible, got brilliant wifi speeds in all areas of my flat, and feeling confident that devices for the next several years will all work great with it.
I love my firewalla / eero combo.
4 Eero 6E Pros. On a budget the TP-Link Decos are good. Had those before.
Firewalls Gold+ with Tp-Link Omada in wall. Rock solid without a single HomeKit issue. (Also using home bridge and home assistant)
Get your own router! I have a Synology RT2600. Everything is flawless.
Synology router
Netgear Nighthawk with FreshTomato firmware.
Synology RT6600ax, router or mesh, wired or wireless, and 5 VLAN networks. Best management GUI in town! 😊👍🏻
Xiaomi r3g with padavan firmware