Thanks for the setup tips, especially about the masquerade rule and safe mode.

I’m not too worries about the loss of speed since internet here in germany is on average slower than 250mbps and anything data intensive like access to my Mediaserver should be handled over Ethernet anyway. If it does become an issue I can always throw a second AP at it I guess?

I’m not sure how to find out whether it has two access points. Performancewise I believe the specific model I have selected should be fine.

Thanks. I wasn’t sure about the VLAN thing so that’s one of my main reasons for this post. I will probably buy a VLAN capable router anyway because I am pretty into home automation stuff and the ability to separate the IoT traffic and play around with networking a bit seems nice

I read about the issue regarding the halved connection speed somewhere but I don’t believe that will be an issue. Considering the average internet speeds here in germany are below 250mbps I don’t expect to saturate the WiFi connection even with half speed. Anything data intensive like accesses to my mediaserver will primarily be over ethernet.

I’ve heard about DMZ before but I never knew what it was. That will probably not be an option unfortunately. While I don’t know what router is currently used by the other residents I assume it will be either a FritzBox (which allow some configuration but are mostly idiot proof routers that are very popular here in germany) or a locked down router by the ISP. On neither case will I be able to configure a DMZ.

Regarding the WAN port, I was planning to use the stock RouterOS from MikroTik but I believe that the router can be configured this way already without OpenWRT.

Ah that makes sense. I thought I needed the VLAN to separate my network out from the rest.

I am a bit confused about your last paragraph though where you mention 2 APs. Do you mean my private AP and the AP used by the rest of the apartment or do you mean that I have to get 2 APs?

One question in regards to your noise comment: What drives are you running? I have a synology with 2 toshiba mg08 16tb drives and those things are unbearably loud when reading or writing. A lot of that obviously comes down to the drives themselves but I also kind of blame the plastic chassis for probably resonating with the noise and not being better at soundproofing.

My personal reasons for buying a synology were ease of use, reliability and power usage.

I had previously played around with TrueNAS in a VM using an external USB HDD Enclosure for storage and I just wanted something reliable. With TrueNAS I often ran into issues with user permissions one way or another and the Synology software is incredibly easy to use and foolproof.

Is that supposed to be a con? I don’t even use 4 bays currently and would be perfectly fine with a 4 rackmount NAS. 7 HDD bays sounds great to me

That thing looks almost too good to be true for 500. What’s the drawback?

Not available in europe? (It actually is available, I just checked)

Loud as fuck?

Bad Software?

Welp, guess I definitely won’t be buying synology again in the future. I was planning to transition to a rackmounted NAS at some point and synology is overpriced in that category anyway but this puts the final nail in for me.

It’s a shame because I quite liked the simplicity of their UI.

If you are in germany, thalia lists whether a book has DRM

That shit looks terrifying