Thank you all for suggestions.
Mikrotiks are awesome but are not really for inexperienced network admins. They do provide sane defaults and a setup wizard for common use cases but making most changes requires a basic understanding of the TCP/IP stack - DHCP, DNS, IP addresses and subnets… I’d describe it as kind of the Arch Linux of networking. You need to configure each piece separately, but that gives you complete flexibility and control. It’s barebones but usable out of the box (moreso than arch), but with the ability to rival basically any competitor in terms of functionality, including very expensive Cisco stuff
If by “nothing fancy” you mean nothing expensive and/or gamery and this sounds interesting to you, I highly recommend giving them a shot - they are quite cheap brand new and there’s a solid used market. If instead you meant “something straightforward”, as others have suggested a FritzBox provides a more “traditional” router experience, with a lot more guardrails and assistance.
I just need a router that I can connect to a cable to have a WiFi coverage in a part of house. Ideally above 1 Gigabit.
It can serve that purpose too, with the default config you plug in the ethernet cable from your ISP box to port number 1 and it provides a WiFi network with the credentials printed on the label. If you want to change things like the network name or password that’s easy enough with the android app(not sure about iOS, I assume it’s available there too)
I can also only recommend Fritz!Box (I have the 7590). The OS does everything I need for my home network and I’ve had no problems with it since I got it about
6 years ago. Quick correction, it was 5 years ago, I looked up the recipe to be accurate.I’m a massive mikrotik fan. All of my routers and remote routers are mikrotik.
FRITZ!box are pretty good pedigree
Mikrotik are Latvian too I think
Second the Mikrotik!
I have used their stuff for years and years now and I love it. You get a whole bunch of power, very good software and maximum freedom in configurations for a very small price. Especially their enterprise grade config language is awesome, you can configure the whole thing with a few simple commands. You can export your config in a readable format, so you can quickly swap out different configs to try stuff. It also lets you understand the config completely, so you know what you are running.
3rd for mikrotik. Rock solid stuff. Configuration has a bit of a learning curve but they have a ton of options which you can only dream on generic consumer stuff. Few years ago when I got 1/1Gbps uplink to home I tried cheaper unifi router but it could only do ~700Mbps with just bare nat and even less with slightly more complex configuration, current mikrotik can push (according to vendor tests) up to 7Gps. The model I have isn’t available anymore but the price was around 120€ which at least back then was a bargain compared to anything else with comparable feature set.
Both are good products,for “nothing fancy” the Fritzbox is more fitting,though.
I have a Fritz!box 7530 for 2 years. It’s been very good, does everything I want, stable. good UI. their online support and knowledge base is very good.
I have a FRITZ!Box 7583 and all I can really say about it is that it works well enough for me, using it at home. I haven’t really had any problems with it over the last 8 years.
That particular model also has a modem built-in, but they also sell models that are just purely routers.There is mikrotik
I have Turris Omnia and the newer Turris Omnia NG. They are developed and maintained by CZ domain administrator CZ.NIC. I also have the older 1.1 model (which was not publicly sold) from 2013 and it is still maintained and has updates same as the current model. It runs OpenWRT with additional user-friendly GUI and packages from CZ.NIC.
That’s pretty cool, but I wouldn’t call a 500€ router “nothing fancy” :D
MOX is around 200€. It is not cheap but it is upgradable and lasts many years.
I have a turris omnia, it used to work well unfortunately now the 5ghz WiFi keeps dropping so I can’t recommend it any more. I think if I did it again I would buy a small pc, some WiFi adapters and install open wrt on it
