Juniper's SSG5 and SRX100 are nice options for home. I've enjoyed an SSG5 for awhile now. SRX100 for junos. SSG5's pop up on ebay occasionally for a few $100.
-Iain On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Marty Anstey <[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 :) > > > > > I run FreeBSD on a PIII; I can easily saturate my 15mbit cable > connection without it breaking a sweat. I also have a couple Cisco > 2610's, one of which is my ipv6 tunnel endpoint. > > -M > > > > > -- -- - Iain Morris [email protected]
