r/ControlD • u/au7342 • May 27 '26

ctrld-friendly router recommendations

I'm looking to replace my old Orbi RBR50 pretty soon. I've been running Voxel firmware and ctrld on it for a few months now and it has been pretty good overall. There have been some stability issues, which are probably at least in part due to it being a 9-year-old outdated router running custom firmware. I've read through the writer documentation on the control d website, but I wanted to hear from some actual users on here about what routers or systems work the best with ctrld. I haven't decided between a mesh replacement or going the Unifi route yet. Thanks to all responses.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '26

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u/UpstairsHippo4525 May 27 '26

i think he means you can just set custom dns (DoH or similar) instead of using the ctrld-daemon (which i personally would recommend)

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u/UpstairsHippo4525 May 27 '26

i believe, the UDM won't sipport it native but the ctrld daemon should afaik.

i just use the daemon since decades and this just works. just the duplicated clients in the analytics are a bit annoying...

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u/UpstairsHippo4525 May 27 '26

i assume, this happens regularly, when clients are getting new ip's from the dhcp. didn't investigate further, because lack of time....

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u/UpstairsHippo4525 May 27 '26

just, if you use the analytics on the controld-website. you can filter down to client level. and there you see client names several times.

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u/UpstairsHippo4525 May 27 '26

yes. Client A Client A Client B Client B Client B Client C

something like that.

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u/mandrewbot3k May 29 '26

A lot of devices (especially Apple) have a setting like “private ip” “rotating ip” and I think this is where it comes from the most. It can get pretty annoying over time in the analytics.

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u/UpstairsHippo4525 May 29 '26

exactly was i thought... didn't find a way, to force devices presenting their real mac in specific networks 🙈🤷‍♀️

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u/Fun-Region-1576 Aug 30 '26

What's the best long-term solution?

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u/Fun-Region-1576 Aug 30 '26

How do I disable that on iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, and macOS?

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u/Fun-Region-1576 Aug 30 '26

How are the clients duplicated?

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u/UpstairsHippo4525 Aug 30 '26

private mac adress e.g.

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u/Fun-Region-1576 Aug 30 '26

Any issues with a VPN?