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| [Cable] Recomended routers With enough Horsepower for 150/10? Well With the 150/10 On the horizon i want to prepare anyone recomend a router that can handle the speeds? i was thinking netgear wndr3700 Bit i Have no idea what router would deal with this best.
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join:2012-12-17
London, ON
kudos:1 | Re: [Cable] Recomended routers With enough Horsepower for 150/10 My recommendations would be the:
Linksys EA4500 or ASUS RT-N66u
Or their 802.11a equivalents:
Linksys EA6500 ASUS RT-AC66u |
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| reply to morisato
»www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/r···n-to-lan
Probably a good benchmark.
I have a 3700 and it supports about 400 on paper (haven't tried it yet).
Also i'd vouch for the Linksys products.
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| reply to morisato
Biggest bang for your buck »www.kickstarter.com/projects/203···art-home |
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| Only problem with yours KingSull is its not around till october p:)
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·TekSavvy Cable
1 edit | September. I've heard good things about the first version. If you can wait. 
Teksavvy isn't agg POI yet so hold your horses.
I also have the WNDR3700, get the R6200 it's the step up for the same price or even cheaper in some cases.
Netgear R6200:
»www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as···33122479
Same as the Almond+ without app support and a touch screen and $72+ more. |
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 nitzguyPremium
join:2002-07-11
Sudbury, ON
·TekSavvy DSL
| reply to morisato
My recommendation: a desktop PC that you might have lying around with 2 gigabit network cards..run into a gigabit switch.
Nothing beats the reliability of PC and of linux.
Just my thoughts, not sure if price or space is an issue. |
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| said by nitzguy:Nothing beats the reliability of PC and of linux.
Is there a good networking distro? The Tomato user interface does an OK job at managing firewall, dns, and vpn rules. It would be quite a task to do the same from scratch using command line. |
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 Teddy Boomk kudos Received
join:2007-01-29
Toronto, ON
kudos:5 | pfsense: »www.pfsense.org/
Watch out using a PC for this job though... Power consumption is killer, and you'll end up spending a lot of money on it. A laptop is much better, but you'd need some kind of kludge to get a second ethernet port onto it (or you'd need a switch that supports vlans).
Unfortunately, I never seem to have time to learn it
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nitzguyPremium
join:2002-07-11
Sudbury, ON Reviews:
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| reply to QuantumPimp
said by QuantumPimp:said by nitzguy:Nothing beats the reliability of PC and of linux.
Is there a good networking distro? The Tomato user interface does an OK job at managing firewall, dns, and vpn rules. It would be quite a task to do the same from scratch using command line. You're right, its more work to get it going and Tomato and DD-WRT's interfaces are a heck of a lot easier to get going vs diving into something like a Debian with pfsense or something like that.
I just find my router (WNR3500L) even though its running Tomato, seems to have issues....seems to need a reboot every few days even though nothings changed...I'm sure the uptime on my linux server from back in 2005 was over 200 days without any sort of reboot required...the thing just chugged along...and I know with a gigabit card and a gigabit switch, that it'd be able to handle the increased speeds no problemo....even with a 10 year old PC with maybe a 1ghz processor if not older could easily handle those speeds. |
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| reply to QuantumPimp
If your looking to make a serious router X86 is the way to go all these a ~500mhz arm processors cant compare.... get your self an off lease server for 60-100 $
Example: (»toronto.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-sell···45506576)
Many good router OS avail for free
Pfsense - »www.pfsense.org/ ***highly recommend***
smoothwall - »www.smoothwall.org/
unTangle - »www.untangle.com/
Sophos UMI - »www.sophos.com/en-us/products/fr···ion.aspx
I would like to point out if your a complete noob its gonna be rather difficult to setup a server with one of these os....but if your teksavvy its no problemo....also the opportunisties are endless with these....for example my home setup i have 1 x dsl 25/7 1x cable 28/1 combined to give me 53/11 also i have all my traffic that might gain me unwanted attention *cough cough voltage* routed over a vpn that keeps no logs....
just beware its a tinkerers dream i have spent a couple days fiddling with them |
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 pnjunctionTeksavvy ExtremePremium
join:2008-01-24
Toronto, ON
kudos:1 | reply to morisato
The expensive routers are nice but plenty of mid-range ones will do OK.
The site I have found that has reviews and measurements of networking equipment is smallnetbuilder.com.
»www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/r···n-to-lan |
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brad
join:2007-09-06
Etobicoke, ON | reply to nitzguy
said by nitzguy:You're right, its more work to get it going and Tomato and DD-WRT's interfaces are a heck of a lot easier to get going vs diving into something like a Debian with pfsense or something like that.
Linux and pfSense have nothing to do with each other and pfSense is better than Tomato and DD-WRT. |
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pfsense is based on freeBSD not linux |
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nitzguyPremium
join:2002-07-11
Sudbury, ON Reviews:
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| said by mikefallen:pfsense is based on freeBSD not linux
Yes...I wasn't trying to split hairs though as "most" people lump them both together...even though they are separate.
@brad, I know the differences I was just generalizing maybe too much....sorry  .
Last time I dabbled into it was 2005....I just used Debian that I had installed and used iptables to route...never used anything fancy and it worked just fine for me.
Has me thinking of getting back into that though as I have a PC just lying around gathering dust. |
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brad
join:2007-09-06
Etobicoke, ON | reply to mikefallen
said by mikefallen:If your looking to make a serious router X86 is the way to go all these a ~500mhz arm processors cant compare.... get your self an off lease server for 60-100 $
Way way overkill for such a low end connection. A lot of noise and way too much power being consumed for the job.
said by mikefallen:I would like to point out if your a complete noob its gonna be rather difficult to setup a server with one of these os....but if your teksavvy its no problemo If you're that much of a noob then you shouldn't be fiddling with routers at all. |
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| reply to morisato
pfsense on Atom will have no trouble with 150/10. Don't worry about the naysayers, as pfsense can do simple WAN/LAN routing with no configuration beyond booting from the install CD/USB then telling it which NIC is which.
That said, Ubiquiti's new EdgeRouter Lite has really impressed me lately. For $99 this thing can do wire speed on three gigabit ports. Like pfsense, you will need to pair it with a switch if you have more than one or two computers, and it doesn't come with wireless.
Speaking of wireless, I'm a huge fan of Tomato, but 160 Mbps is going to be a stretch. I haven't benchmarked my RT-N66u, but based on my experiences with Tomato on slower hardware like the WL-520gu, I would estimate the n66u's throughput to be closer to 100 Mbps in real life.
Dollar-wise, you would be hard pressed to do better than the ERL paired with a decent router with gig ports running in AP mode.
»www.ubnt.com/edgemax#edge-router-lite
»Wireless Networking Forum FAQ »Using a Wireless Router as an Access Point
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brad
join:2007-09-06
Etobicoke, ON | reply to nitzguy
said by nitzguy:Yes...I wasn't trying to split hairs though as "most" people lump them both together...even though they are separate.
@brad, I know the differences I was just generalizing maybe too much....sorry .
Last time I dabbled into it was 2005....I just used Debian that I had installed and used iptables to route...never used anything fancy and it worked just fine for me.
There is a huge difference between straight Debian or any other desktop/workstation or server oriented Linux based OS and pfSense. |
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Or split the difference between consumer grade routers and DIY PC routers, the Mikrotik routers are the best bang for the buck I've used. Very small, tiny power usage, multiple ports, highly flexible, pretty easy to configure.
Something like the RB750GL can push 1G:
»routerboard.com/RB750GL
There are wifi versions and versions with USB which is handy to configure for a cell data device as failover. The 5 ports can be arranged any way you want including multiple WANs. |
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xcimoEbox 60Mbps
join:2007-11-21
Gatineau, QC | reply to morisato
www.astaro.org free for home use |
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