Router Purchase Advice

[#1]

Hi,
Anotherone pointed me at this thread as I also have one of the Draytek 2850vn's and am very pleased with it.
I considered the future proofing with IP6 support, allow me to go FTTC when I want to, benefit from wireless 'n' and I absolutely needed 2 VOIP connections as I had on my old 2800VG - this gave me all that in one box. Way too many features for what I need at the moment, but very well specd. Looking at over 400 hours solid connection without any problems since I last connected.
Graham.

[#2]

Just read a review of this...

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The 2850Vn supports both 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi, but not simultaneously.

Seems to be a bit pointless not being able to do dual band simultaneously, especially with a £230 price tag!! 

[#3]

I'm on FTTC and I've got the Netgear WNR1000V3 supplied by PN.  Not a bad router, but there's one thing still on my Wish List.
I used to have a Conexant router way back in the day, with Port Forwarding that included IP filtering.  So I could set up port forwards restricted to a few specific IPs. I only have a few VNC and SSH ports open to my work PC, and occasionally open up ports for my son to host game servers.    Every other router I've had since then (including the one I have now) has had simpler PF.  You set the forward up, then have to rely on each PC's individual firewall to keep the bad boys out.  It bugs the hell out of me to see my router logs flooded with rogue IP addresses continually hammering away at my open ports.
Has anyone experience of a router with more configurable firewall and port forwarding?  And possible with more LAN ports on the back? (my Netgear has 4, but a couple more wouldn't go amiss)
--Dave

[#4]

Merged with exiting thread on similar subject - see reply 7 as that may answer the question

[#5]

Quote from: townman

Would prefer Dual band WiFI and Dual SIDD, IPv6 capable and ideally FTTC capable..... ....... in looking for a new router / modem myself, though I do have the additional (specialist) requirement of an in-built Radius server which to date I have not been able to find a product to fulfil.

I don't know if anyone can make further suggestions for the initial requirements, but if anyone can suggest anything for the specialist requirement as well I'm sure it will be appreciated bt townman.

[#6]

I can recommend the Billion 7800N. It has very good wireless and its Broadcom 6358 chipset will hold connections well. However, for ADSL performance it is not any better than a D-Link DSL-2740B or a Huawei HG612 in my experience. But, for wireless, it is excellent.
Alternatively, you could buy something like the AirPort Extreme and piggy-back it onto a modem like the NETGEAR DG834GT (very cheap from eBay) and get good ADSL2+ performance and excellent wireless (5GHz and 2.4GHz simultaneously and the range is excellent).
Unfortunately, both of these come to over £100. But, you do get what you pay for. However, I will do some more digging (and remembering as I have tried many routers :)) and get back to you with some other suggestions.
I hope that helps.

[#7]

Quote from: townman

Would prefer Dual band WiFI and Dual SIDD, IPv6 capable and ideally FTTC capable..... ....... in looking for a new router / modem myself, though I do have the additional (specialist) requirement of an in-built Radius server which to date I have not been able to find a product to fulfil.

AirPort Extreme will support all of these.
Edit: By dual SSID, do you mean two or more for each band (2.4GHz and 5GHz) or one for 2.4 and one for 5? If the latter, the AirPort Extreme will support this. But, if not, then it won't. Sorry.

[#8]

Some Guy,
Thanks - a question at a level I had not considered.
May be nievely, I thought that the SSID covered bith bands    My requirement is to have a 'private' SSID and a guest SSID on at least the 2.4 band.  I guess that there is little need for a guest capability on the 5GHz band.

Cheers,
Kevin

[#9]

To the best of my knowledge the 7800n does not have a 'guest SSID' facility, it is IPv6 capable and it's 'EWAN' port is capable of being configured for FTTC.

[#10]

Quote from: townman

May be nievely, I thought that the SSID covered bith bands    My requirement is to have a 'private' SSID and a guest SSID on at least the 2.4 band.  I guess that there is little need for a guest capability on the 5GHz band.

The AirPort Extreme supports a 'normal' SSID and a 'guest' SSID.
Sorry for the delay by the way :).

[#11]

Not read whole thread but if you want a fibre router then the Netgear N300 (WNR3500) has a guest sid as well as a normal one. available quite cheaply on fleabay.

[#12]

AC66U
ready for next gen wireless AC
dual band wireless
gigabit wan
only downside is custom firmware is minimal atm...something do do witht he split ram
not 100% its the best for gaming mind
one that has an advanced qos with dscp settings would be better

[#13]

Another recommendation for the Draytek Vigor series - I've purchased 6 of them recently, one for home use, 5 for business use in various colocation facilities around london.
I have the 2830n-plus at home which runs 2.4ghz and 5ghz (although not at the same time), channel bonding, 3 different types of VPN dial-in, WOL, great coverage and with 333mhz processors they are very responsive.
They do have up to 5 SSIDs support, each with their own bandwidth allocation, and certainly more than capable of guest access.
They have USB mass storage as an option, and also capable of using 3G USB as a fallover. I'm awaiting adaptors to connect some nice 9dbi antennae to my home.
My 2830 runs just my home network of a few machines and tablets on ADSL2+ PPPoE (using the inbuilt modem), whereas the one in my office runs 30+ PCs, and get 75 mbit down/16 mbit up via BT FTTC modem via PPPoE.
-Soen