Given a marked lack of $significant funding for home routing, I rock BSD boxen all over. At one point we had several doing OSPF in my apartment (because we could) but I moved and am now behind a single Sun Netra ($30) with BSD, natd, and iptables. Works beautifully.
If you're only interested in real routing hardware, I'd probably go with the low-end cisco SOHO stuff, or if you still have a 2600 sitting around and only roll DSL, that will work nicely. -Jack Carrozzo On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Charles N Wyble <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hopefully this e-mail is considered operational content :) > > > The recent thread on the new linkys kit and ipv6 support got me thinking > about CPE choice. > > What good off the shelf solutions are out there? Should one buy the high end > d-link/linksys/netgear products? I've had bad experiences with those > (netgear in particular). > > Should one get a "real" cisco router? The 877 or something? Maybe an ASA or > the new small business targeted ISR (can't recall the model number off hand > right now). There is mikrotik but I'm not so sure about the operating > system. > > Is there a market for a new breed of CPE running OpenWRT or pfsense on > hardware with enough CPU/RAM to not fall over? > > Granted that won't cost $79.00 at best buy. However it seems to me that > decent CPE is going to run a couple hundred dollars in order to have > sufficient ram/cpu. > > My current home router is a cisco 1841. I keep my 6mbps DSL line pretty much > saturated all the time. Often times my wife will be watching Hulu in the > living room, I'll be streaming music and running torrents (granted I have > tuned my Azures client fairly well) all at the same time and it's a good > experience. Running that kind of traffic load through my linksys would > cause it to need a reboot once or more a day. > > What are folks here running in SOHO environments that doesn't require too > frequent oil changes :) > > >
