I've recently got more into networking when I was having issues with Asus mesh setup dropping devices once I got up to ~50 wireless devices in the household. After that I decided to go a different route (actually it was after I watched a Linus Tech video on his new house where he installed way too many Ruckus access points).

My setup:

ISP: Xfinity 1.2Gb/s down 40Mb/s up (wish it was faster, I only went with 1.2 down because of the "faster" upload)

Modem: ARRIS SURFboard SB8200 DOCSIS 3.1 (lets me do a LAGG to take advantage of >1Gb/s internet)

Router: Lenovo ThinkCenter M900 with a i5-6500 and 16GB of ram running pfSense (strongly recommend pfSense)

Switch: Brocade 6450 48-port POE switch (can be had for a reasonable price on ebay)

Wireless access point: Ruckus Wireless R720 running Ruckus Unleashed - no contest, the quality of this access point is so much better than my Asus AX11000, no question about it.  The only time this access point gets restarted is when I do a firmware update.

Network cards: HP Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 561T in my desktop and "router," 649281-B21 HP Infiniband 40Gb/s in the server.

Misc: Cat 7 network or SFP passive copper network cables between the modem, router, switch, desktop, and server.  I only wish I could run network cable to every room in the house, but that would involve lots of drywalling.

I do have another Ruckus R650 heading my way to take advantage of AX devices.  Not sure if it will entirely replace my R720 or if I'll try out a mesh network with it. 

I have registered on the VMWare website for the free license of ESXi 7, but all it states is that it cant process the request and to try again later. I figured maybe it didnt like Brave and tried WaterFox but got the same result. I have the license but cant download the product, am I missing something here?

Thanks in advance

Just curious to others' experience in this domain 🙂 

I've been using it for a few years now and I have a few annoyances/issues which I haven't ironed out yet. Maybe discussing here we can shed some light...

- I'm running the latest Merlin firmware and for some reason when I go to the wireless settings section in the menu, it all goes wonky. No tabs show up and lots of options seem to be missing. Can't even see anymore the separate 2.4/5Ghz setup tabs.

- on the initial setup page, there's a "clients" section, which should show all the devices connected currently. This never works, always shows zero. Any ideas?

Anyone else seen similar issues?