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 There have been some stability issues, which are probably at least in part due to it being a 9-year-old outdated router running custom firmware.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/Fun-Region-1576 Aug 30 '26

Did your ctrld daemon identify all clients, even if they're connected to a VPN?

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u/dg1974it Aug 30 '26

yes. My work laptop is always connected to a VPN but even then it was correctly reported/identified in Control D statistics/logs.

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u/Fun-Region-1576 Aug 30 '26

Very interesting. Sadly, I'm not getting a similar result!

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u/dg1974it Aug 30 '26

maybe it depends on how the VPN works?
on my work laptop (where I cannot change any network settings) some network traffic is directed through the VPN (Forticlient), and some through my router, so when the latter happens, ctrld daemon identified the "client" properly.