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In search of the perfect fiber optic router - recommendations needed

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  • The only other good brand, that has fiber, is accessible for home use, that I am aware of, is TP-Link’s “Omada” line of business routers. Unfortunately, they seem to only be marginally cheaper than UniFi.

    If you end up finding a cheap fiber router, let us know

    Edit: you might be able to build a fiber router cheaper if you got ahold of an old PC, bought the right PCIe card for some fiber ports, and used something like OPNSense or OpenWRT but I’ve never looked into it

    • In search of the perfect fiber optic router - recommendations needed

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  • I’ve been extremely happy with my UniFi gear. It has 2 SFP+ ports.

    • ELI5: In computer networking, what is a port?

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  • Imagine you need to go see your doctor. They work in a building with 65535 rooms. Some rooms are empty. Some rooms have people in them that provide different services. But you need your doctor so you look up their location.

    You learn the building address (IP address) and the room number (port)

    In practice, you attach services to specific ports so that other computers can access those services. Typically, http traffic is on port 80 and https is on port 443. So if you visit a website, you are likely connected to a server on one of those two ports. But it’s not a requirement. You could create a website and put it on port 2097, or 532, or 47210; it doesn’t matter.