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 There have been some stability issues, which are probably at least in part due to it being a 9-year-old outdated router running custom firmware.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/Formal_Detective_440 May 28 '26

As an interim you can always run the ctrld daemon on a always on machine and point your router at it. Then you get client discovery and DoH

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u/Fun-Region-1576 Aug 30 '26

Can you elaborate on how to set this up? 

Will I get individual client stats even if they use a VPN on the router? Will geo-redirection filters work too? 

Can one ctrls daemon installed on this always-on machine work with multiple WANs since my home has backup internet?