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My Homelab currently consists of 3 Mini PC's and will eventually be put in a 10" rack

They are all just plugged into the router my ISP provided, I'd like to get a new router that runs open-source software and create a new network from it. I have no idea where to begin.

What hardware would you recommend?

Bonus: If possible I'd like to in the future attach a sim card to my network as a backup for the occasion that the ISP connection drops. (just a nice to have)

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[–] Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

They are not open source but I just started dipping my toes into the Mikrotik ecosystem and the hardware has been pretty nice from what I have seen. I am not a network guy, just a homegamer coming from normal asus routers though. They have a couple of options for adding cell service via sim cards but I have not looked too far into it.

Edit: it looks like there is an openwrt release for the rb5009ug I am using. I may need to check that out.

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

OpenWRT on a 5009? Why? You'll lose the switch/cpu integration and a whole lot of speed, not to mention features....

[–] Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The op mentioned wanting open source. Just providing information and it got me curious.

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Oh, OK. I moved to mikrotik 8 years ago and haven't looked back.

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