It’s mostly just a strong preference, so if I can reasonably do it I’d like to. Some great info in that post, thanks for finding it!

Sounds like a pain to configure compared to some of the more designated systems. Is the advantage that you use Ubuntu for other things as well, so it’s a more multifunctional system?

I’d probably have to buy something before it supports WiFi. It’s built to run pfsense (has 4 ethernet ports) so I imagine that it would run just fine if I got it a good antenna, but who knows.

Are any of those open source? I was hoping to go the open source route

I already have an opnsense router as firewall, so I don’t really need that part. Was just looking to add a WiFi access point.

Haven’t heard of freshtomato before but this seems like a nice option. I’ll look into it, thx for the suggestion!