u/Guh69420

Recently my modem and wifi router died due to a storm and power surges. My isp gave me a crap router with 6 months no charge. After that is $10/month or give it back(extremely slow, like 1/10 of what im paying for bandwidth wise and like a 10ms ping on wifi) Im just wondering what advantages there are building a sff pc with an ap vs just buying an off the shelf solution. Previously ive went with Asus routers and liked them for the most part. Pc hardware cost is not a factor since I can source anything 2022+ from my job for little to no cost. My only expenses would be an access point and my time learning something like opnsense. All my high performance devices are hard wired. Just looking to see if there is any reason, performance wise, to try a diy solution. Please keep in mind that my networking experience is port forwarding for my Minecraft server in 2012 and im quite paranoid about messing something up and creating a security vulnerability for all my devices