Looking for advice on what the best solution for me is. I have been looking online but can’t find a solid answer for what I’m looking for.
I currently have 6 google Wi-Fi mesh APs around my house. One of these acts as the main router. Foresight would have been nice but hey I’m invested now.
Id like to add a router or switch before the routers but after my modem that supports open vpn and wire guard. This will handle a home network with gigabit.
Don’t really have a price limit but I obviously don’t think I need anything enterprise lol. eBay would be the best router for this? Thank you in advise for the advice!
Personally I wouldn’t bother with dedicated network gear for this, it’s not necessary. Get yourself a Raspberry Pi (or any SOC that will run Linux) and use that. Or a mini PC and pfsense.
I’m running Google Wifi as well. I have a Pi running Wireguard and Pihole with Unbound. This Pihole does adblocking for my VPN and is a backup for another Pi (running Pihole and Unbound) that does blocking for my home network . They back each other up and I have wireguard installed on my secondary PI incase my Primary fails I can SSH in and start up my secondary Wireguard. The Pi 3s are more than capable of running all this a few other things without a sweat.
This is the way. You won’t get much better than the google puck’s performance wise. For wireguard, use a raspberrypi and install pivpn. Its super easy and easily managed via command line.
All you have to do is forward the vpn port to your raspberry pi and you’ll have solid access to your internal network.
I got about 130 Mpbs up and down when i had google fiber and the pucks. I think thats a wireguard limitation though; doubtful you’d get a lot more on other hardware.
Or maybe I’m misunderstanding, are you looking to make your router a client of another server? Then yes, your router needs to be able to handle being a wireguard client. I like gli dot net’s routers for that.
