Finally moved everything to the basement.

Spent years with everything in the office with me. Used to run some pretty old and noisy devices too lol. I always wanted to move everything somewhere else to cut down on noise but that means cables to run and total disassembly. Finally bit the bullet and moved it all last Saturday. The office has never been so peaceful

Best option in price? No. Best option in coverage? Yes.

At least that was true at one point. Not sure if its still holds true today. For awhile they were basically the only ones with coverage in many rural areas.

Depending on age/interest there’s stuff like luanti

Favorite I’ve had was a switch just sitting on the panels of a drop ceiling. Wasn’t documented that’s where it was either. I spent an hour or so hunting around a department when somebody mentioned, “there’s that tech thing in the ceiling”.

Is self hosting an option?

Oooh thanks for the tip. Just learned about ^typocorrection that way!

Well now you’ve got me trying BSSG :p

Nice. Haven’t tried IpFire but gonna give it a look. Been on OpnSense for a couple years now and have been enjoying it.

Small static websites. You can get surprisingly performant and easily managed websites if you don’t actually need the overhead of common frameworks. For instance giving your kid a real domain they can update and show to their friends.

On the slightly more resource intensive side, OpnSense has been a game changer for me.