I’ve got pfsense coming into the house, and then ubiquiti throughout.

I’m currently running pfsense, and then mikrotik and ubiquiti switched and ubiquiti AP’s. I’m slowly removing the ubiquiti switches and moving to mikrotik as I’m upgrading to 10gbe. Mikrotik switches have a reputation of being reliable, capable, and cheap-ish. So far I like them. While I love ubiquiti’s single pane of glass approach with the unifi controller, I wanted to get away from that a bit. I work in IT, and most things I encounter don’t have that… And are configured via cli and or web interface. When I built my home network I jumped into ubiquiti for the ease. Now I’m back tracking for more learning.

I’m quite partial to to-link and ubiquti

Anything running open wrt. I have 4 different devices with ooenwrt on them and they justseamlessly works greatt .

At home I use opnsense for firewalling, and behind that I have a mixture of switches:

• smallbusiness cisco switch (not to be confused with enterprisey cisco switches)
• Unifi switches
• TP-link switches
• Force10 switches.
• Dell switches

Frankly, I’ve had good luck with anything except for the tp-link. unifi tends to oversimplify in their ui IMHO (e.g. there’s no manual LAG settings, you get LACP only), and I trust pretty much all of them fairly well except for the tp-link. I know a lot of folks use other smallbusiness/homeoffice switches (netgear, tplink, etc) and frankly I stay away from them as much as i can nowadays.

There are some open source switching firmwares and opensource virtualized switching. To get there you need to be willing to make some serious sacrifices, though, in budget, performance, flexibility, and power bill…

Trust isn’t the right word (I don’t really trust any vendor), but I’m using TP-Link Jetstream, just because of their price point.

Layer-3 managed with CLI for dirt cheap. And they work with tp-link omada APs, if you’re into that kind of thing.

I used to be a big netgear fan. But they had a lot of connections with the nsa. So now I use tplink for everything since they’re a great cheaper brand. But they’re chinese, so I traded one invasive country for another

I use OPNSense with some older Aruba I got from a local IT guy that upgraded an office. I had to update the firmware and learn CLI for HP, but not bad considering price was nice. I would recommend to get something not consumer if you really want to get invested.

I might cop some flack but I use Cisco, they’re rock solid, last for years and just work with minimal issues and I’ve not run into problems with hardware under performing or firmware bugs like I have on others.

That said, Ubiquiti makes fantastic hardware, I believe Mikrotik does too.

You can absolutely buy open hardware that allows you to install custom switching OS; Dell and Mellanox make them as do many other manufacturers (I think even Facebook has a hardware switch, not that I’d buy it lol). One of the more common OS to install on them is Cumulus Linux and a lot of these use “spine leaf” topologies.

I use the Nintendo Switch.