Help choosing router and possible configurations

RouterOS General
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Hi there!

I really need some help in choosing a new router to my house. My actual configuration is like this:

It’s a very big house and the wireless on my Netgear R7000 is not covering it very well. Besides, I’m starting to migrate to AC my portable gear so I’m thinking on installing one ethernet router and 2 APs in each side of the house. Besides that, I’m looking for something futureproof (that could handle well a 1Gbit internet connection) and maybe another PtP link.

For the ethernet router, I was thinking on two options:

  • RB1100AHx2
  • CCR1009-7G-1C-PC

For the APs, I was thinking on the new Ubiquiti AC HD.

I was thinking on something like this:

Now, about Routerboard’s router and routerOS, I have several questions:

1- On CCR router (for example) the ethernet ports are all independent. Can I bridge them so I can use them like a switch? Will that affect the LAN-to-LAN and WAN-to-LAN throughput? Or will I have any kind of limitation doing it?

2- To have all my ISP’s services, I need to tag a VLAN 12 on WAN ethernet Port. For IPTV, I will need IGMPv3 Proxy and IGMP Snooping. Can I configure this options on any of the routers that I named before? (I’m sorry for asking this… I never used routerOS before)

3- I need OpenVPN server on the routerside for connecting some outside clients to my local network and have internet passthrough as well. Will I have any problems we the router options that wrote before?

I’m open to other kind of configurations. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to write them.

Thank you :slight_smile:

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  1. You can bridge the ports on CCR. Throughput will be affected, since everything will have to pass through CPU. CCR should have enough power to handle it though.

  2. RouterOS unfortunately doesn’t support IGMP snooping, so you will experience significant bandwidth waste, especially if your wireless link is a bridge.

  3. RouterOS has a poor quality implementation of OpenVPN as it doesn’t support UDP. It will work in TCP mode but throughput and performance will be quite bad.

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Thank you for your help, R1CH.

Unfortunately I will need support for IGMP Snooping and Proxy because, without that, IPTV multicast will not work properly…

Yes, the wireless link is a bridge.

For what I see, no IGMP support is the only problem with this solution, and that’s a big problem for me. I really need IGMP snooping :frowning:

I don’t know what to do…