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Turn off Wi-Fi on Velop? or replace it with non-Wi-Fi router?

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Hi, on CF 1G. I would like to turn-off the Velop's Wi-Fi and just use as it as a wired router. It was not obvious to me how to disable the Velop's Wi-Fi. If that is not possible, can someone suggest a simple wired router that I can purchase instead? Thanks in advance.
 
Do you need a wired (only) router?

If you have an existing WiFi system and that’s why you don’t need WiFi on the Linksys then it might connect directly to the Community Fibre optical to copper converter (ONT).

If you just don’t want WiFi then to avoid slowing your connection speed you will need a fairly capable router.

My immediate thoughts go towards the ubiquiti range but I can’t suggest a particular model.
 
Do you need a wired (only) router?

If you have an existing WiFi system and that’s why you don’t need WiFi on the Linksys then it might connect directly to the Community Fibre optical to copper converter (ONT).

If you just don’t want WiFi then to avoid slowing your connection speed you will need a fairly capable router.

My immediate thoughts go towards the ubiquiti range but I can’t suggest a particular model.
Hi, I need a wired-only router with 1G Ethernet ports. It needs to have at least one port for "WAN" to connect to the ONT, and have NAT capability. It must also have at least three other ports that can be configured as switched ports for LAN connectivity. And the router needs to support DHCP and static mappings.

The reason is because I have two pfsense firewalls in a HA configuration, so I need three IP addresses on the WAN...the ONT only provides one IP address. Three switched LAN ports are required; one for each of the pfsense firewalls and one as a spare maintenance port. I could get away with one LAN port but I'll then need to get another switch which I want to avoid. All traffic hitting the wired router from the pfsense firewalls will only be traffic intended for the WAN so I don't see the wired router need be especially capable.

Also, I'm not particularly concerned with double-NATing (or even CG-NAT) as I will have a site-to-site OpenVPN connection from pfsense, with the server being on the Internet so no problems connecting to the home LAN.

Why do I have pfsense in a HA when only having one WAN connection? So I can play around and update one firewall without it taking down the Internet for the family. Also the LAN will consist of two switches in a resilient manner making use of RSTP so that I can lose one pfsense firewall and still have the LAN devices routed to the WAN. I'm looking at the Ubiquiti range now, thanks :)
 
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Hi, I need a wired-only router with 1G Ethernet ports. It needs to have at least one port for "WAN" to connect to the ONT, and have NAT capability. It must also have at least three other ports that can be configured as switched ports for LAN connectivity. And the router needs to support DHCP and static mappings.

The reason is because I have two pfsense firewalls in a HA configuration, so I need three IP addresses on the WAN...the ONT only provides one IP address. Three switched LAN ports are required; one for each of the pfsense firewalls and one as a spare maintenance port. I could get away with one LAN port but I'll then need to get another switch which I want to avoid. All traffic hitting the wired router from the pfsense firewalls will only be traffic intended for the WAN so I don't see the wired router need be especially capable.

Also, I'm not particularly concerned with double-NATing (or even CG-NAT) as I will have a site-to-site OpenVPN connection from pfsense, with the server being on the Internet so no problems connecting to the home LAN.

Why do I have pfsense in a HA when only having one WAN connection? So I can play around and update one firewall without it taking down the Internet for the family. Also the LAN will consist of two switches in a resilient manner making use of RSTP so that I can lose one pfsense firewall and still have the LAN devices routed to the WAN. I'm looking at the Ubiquiti range now, thanks :)
I would go with Asus. If you want something cheap you can pick an older model like the ASUS RT-AC68U which is still a great router specially if you disable the Wifi radios.

+1 on the Ubiquiti Unifi, best IT investment I made in years. A true wifi solution as long as you can wire all your access points and you put enough of them.
 
Draytek is another option and supports dual WAN should your needs change in the future.

 
Draytek is another option and supports dual WAN should your needs change in the future.

I wondered about Draytek and I like them, but a 2927 is quite expensive in this application and many others are not up to 1Gb/s.

Having looked a bit more, the first thing I would investigate for this requirement is the Ubiquiti "EdgeRouter X".

However, I've never used any Ubiquiti products.
 
I wondered about Draytek and I like them, but a 2927 is quite expensive in this application and many others are not up to 1Gb/s.

Having looked a bit more, the first thing I would investigate for this requirement is the Ubiquiti "EdgeRouter X".

However, I've never used any Ubiquiti products.
I have the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter ERPoE-5 (EOL) and it has served me well for the last 5 years. I would avoid the ER-X series as its software based and I think it’s throughput is limited to a combined upload / download of 1 Gbps.
 
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Hi, on CF 1G. I would like to turn-off the Velop's Wi-Fi and just use as it as a wired router. It was not obvious to me how to disable the Velop's Wi-Fi. If that is not possible, can someone suggest a simple wired router that I can purchase instead? Thanks in advance.
Mikrotik hAP ax²

By a very long way the best router under 100GBP.


ARM 64 bit SoC which means support from Mikrotik for the next decade, and none of the regular bullsh*t that Ubiquiti pull on their customers

Disable the WiFi and you're good to go..

Screenshot_20230825_193938.png



Here.


or here.

 
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Hi, all. Thanks for the replies. I thought I'd report back.

Some of the replies reached me too late as I rushed out to purchased a DrayTek Vigor 2927-K wired-only router. The MikroTik solution, and also the commands to disable the Velop's Wi-Fi, look great but reached me too late.

With the DrayTek Vigor, I initially had problems with no connectivity but I eventually discovered that the Vigor's ARP Spoofing defence features were preventing pfsense's CARP from working (the VIP was not recognised by the Vigor) so the pfsense NAT rules for outbound traffic to have the source IP as the VIP meant that there was no return traffic. As soon as I disabled the Vigor's ARP Spoofing, I got connectivity.

Speed test from Orbi WiFi AP--> pfsense firewall --> Vigor 2927 Router --> CF ONT --> CF network --> Internet --> Ookla measured 943.17 Mbps Download, and 943.26 Mbps Upload. So all good!

Now that I have the Vigor 2927, I see it has a number of features that I may utilise, most likely the HA config.
 
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