I’m gonna be moving into a new place soon and I’ll be setting up the Internet there. I want to experiment with setting up a local network with static IPs just for learning and fun, so I want my own router. I don’t want something hard to use because other people will be using the internet from it too. I don’t really know what the router market looks like, and I don’t want to support Reddit, so I’m asking here.

Ideally, this router would:

• Be under $150 (but I might be willing to go a bit higher)
• Be easily purchasable (no AliExpress specials)
• Not sell data to corporations
• Have a long life, ideally through easily set-up open source firmware but reputable proprietary is fine
• Have good enough antennas to propagate signal across a small house
• Support up to 500Mb/s sustained speeds

What do you think? Thank you for your help!