Have a client in an office in Florida that is not air-conditioned on Sunday afternoons (the building landlord won't activate the airhandlers, cheap SOB). RV042 installed onsite failed in about 6 months, the next one made it 8 months. The later generations may have fixed the problem - there was an issue with bad capacitors on the board which would leak under high temp conditions and eventually fail, causing the device to refuse to operate. I hear you can fix them by soldering on new caps but I haven't actually opened one of the broken units to find out. RV016 in the same location has been stable for 2+ years, however. ---- Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955
On Nov 19, 2010, at 10:36 PM, RS wrote: Umm. OK. I'm not a Linksys RV-series guru or anything, but I have deployed around 10 of them for SMB clients over the last six or seven years, and I've never had a failure issue. In fairness, there are reports out there that describe user experiences which differ significantly from the ones which I have been lucky enough to enjoy, but, also in fairness, I have never exceeded the design specifications of the devices I have deployed. RS On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Kramer, Jack <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: RV series isn't bad if you don't mind them failing easily in hotter-than-normal conditions, especially the RV042 and RV082. RV016 is a little better at it. Their CPUs aren't the swiftest either, so their VPN performance is somewhat lacking at times and they may have trouble keeping up with the 50mb internet. (Stu, you're not taking advantage of the FiOS in Clearwater are you?) I like the Juniper SSG and SRX series devices - the SSG-5 and SSG-20 should be capable of handling the load-balanced connection, and the SRX can definitely keep up but the software support on the SRX line is a little lacking right now as the JUNOS replacement for Netscreen is progressing slowly. ---- Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 On Nov 19, 2010, at 8:11 PM, RS wrote: He never wrote that they are from the same company. Since 'cable' was specified, it's likely that they would be from the same provider, unless we happen to be talking about a very enlightened municipality. If you don't need or want UTM, the Linksys RV series has always been a good SMB router/firewall. On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Jim McAtee <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Two feeds from the same cable company? If so, the only way one is going down while the other stays up is if there's a physical break in one of the lines between the curb and the building, which I would think should be very rare. I don't think I'd bother setting up such a scheme if failover is the goal. And few ten person offices need a 50 Mbps internet connection, so load balancing two of them accomplishes very little. Better would be to set up the cable connection to be used all the time, and fail over to a slower DSL link. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stu Sjouwerman" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 12:27 PM Subject: Which router do you like best for this? I'm creating an office for 10 people to start with, and want a router that can take two different (50/5) cable feeds and load balance them. When one feed gets cut, the other feed takes over and at least we'll have access. What router do you like best for this type of use? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
