Guess who has Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X sitting on his desk. No one told me when I got into all of this I was going to be a Swiss army knife lol. I love when I got to vendor demos and they say "well just get your network person to talk to your storage person, who may need to talk to your server person." All the while I'm thinking how funny it's going to look when I'm having a full-blown conversation with myself. I hear ya.I wouldn't know the first thing about IT Directors being spread waaaaay too thin. what do the enterprise ones really offer anymore? Not to mention if you want to flash 3rd party firmware on there for those same features. Of course the enterprise stuff will claim it is top notch, but is it really? Assuming quality is on-par or the same with these $200-300 consumer SOHO routers. I'm more interested in the actual security differences. But nothing better than I had with a well configed Asus RT sadly enough. I've also messed with the cheaper TP-Link dual WAN "Enterprise" routers and had luck. When it failed, they said that the service agreement was up and we would need to pay for a year in order to get even the current firmware we had rights to :O. Granted this was an ASA that sort of expects you to have your CCNA. We had to have Cisco's indian tech config the damn thing for VPN. For instance the Cisco ASA 5501 I had at a site didn't even make it 2 years, in the end the configs were broken and stopped saving. I've got some enterprise gear around at different sites but always found it to not be magical or worth it. This was one of the first N66u I installed. The wireless network will usually have about 20 wireless clients and we've never had issues. I've still got an Asus RT-N66u serving and office with 15 computers, a server and a handful of IP cameras.
Soho router vs router mac#
Most of these networks are going to be using a 24+ port switch with MAC tables anyhow, so unless you're calling outside of the network it's wasted hardware.Īnyone else feel this way, or feel that I'm way of base? If so, how? Does something like the Asus RT-AC3200 with all of it's "Pro" features, integrated AV, VPN, ect really cut it for this type of environment? My feeling as of late is YES, absolutely, so long as you don't have any special networking requirements. I feel like I see very little benefit to these expensive units that also require expensive contracts to be kept running or getting updates like Cisco's equipment. So for a small business of say under 10 users/computers, does going the 500+ route for something like a SonicWall, really make any sense? I'm not talking about financial groups, or customers required to handle PHI in a HIPPA compliant office. Now it seems that these SOHO routers are getting monthly updates in addition to "Anti-Virus" definitions on a regular basis too. Previously a manufacturer would drop a unit on the market and 6 months later there was no word on updates.
Soho router vs router series#
Asus' RT series being a great example of what open source can do for a routers performance, security and longevity.
Soho router vs router full#
I seems like the more and more popular these SOHO wireless routers get, the more powerful, full featured and attention they get from not only the market but the developers. Yet here we are again, trying to determine if the "Business Class" hardware really had not only the value, but reliability proposition to make. Myself having been apart of these conversations. I know this topic has been discussed many times over between here and other places.