[WISPA] Client Router selection
Wondering what routers are all of you using at client installs? What are the most reliable and so on? thanks in advance! Bo NCOWireless.com -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
[WISPA] Client Router Selection
Wondering what routers are all of you using at client installs? What are the most reliable and so on? thanks in advance! Bo NCOWireless.com -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Client Router selection
I've had good luck with Linksys. Gotta change the lan ip to something non standard though. Marlon(509) 982-2181 Equipment sales(408) 907-6910 (Vonage) Consulting services42846865 (icq) And I run my own wisp!64.146.146.12 (net meeting)www.odessaoffice.com/wirelesswww.odessaoffice.com/marlon/cam - Original Message - From: Bo Hamilton To: wireless@wispa.org Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 5:58 AM Subject: [WISPA] Client Router selection Wondering what routers are all of you using at client installs? What are the most reliable and so on? thanks in advance! Bo NCOWireless.com -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.orgSubscribe/Unsubscribe:http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wirelessArchives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Client Router selection
We have good luck with Linksys. If the customer is a larger business client or someone who needs higher reliability and better features we often load up Mikrotik on a Routerboard or WRAP board. Scriv Bo Hamilton wrote: Wondering what routers are all of you using at client installs? What are the most reliable and so on? thanks in advance! Bo NCOWireless.com -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Client Router selection
Sorry to answer my own post but I should also mention that if I ever have a larger enterprise client (like a college, hospital, etc.) that needs a bullet-proof routing solution I will likely sell them Imagestream. My next big router for my core will be an Imagestream. Everyone I speak to about them say they are the best out there at any price. Scriv John Scrivner wrote: We have good luck with Linksys. If the customer is a larger business client or someone who needs higher reliability and better features we often load up Mikrotik on a Routerboard or WRAP board. Scriv Bo Hamilton wrote: Wondering what routers are all of you using at client installs? What are the most reliable and so on? thanks in advance! Bo NCOWireless.com -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Client Router selection
The best at any price doesn't seem to fit here. You only choose a commodity router to save money. I don't know anything about Imagestream specifically, but I certainly looked into Linux-based routers. In fact, we even ran Linux-based routers initially before going Cisco. We didn't blindly go with Cisco like many companies either. We looked long and hard at what every major vendor had to offer and ultimately went with Cisco. Certainly there aren't any Linux-based routers that out perform high-end Cisco routers, but that wasn't the most important part. The ability to support features such as MPLS, find labor resources familiar with Cisco, and ultimately being able to finance the gear make Cisco the clear choice. -Matt John Scrivner wrote: Sorry to answer my own post but I should also mention that if I ever have a larger enterprise client (like a college, hospital, etc.) that needs a bullet-proof routing solution I will likely sell them Imagestream. My next big router for my core will be an Imagestream. Everyone I speak to about them say they are the best out there at any price. Scriv John Scrivner wrote: We have good luck with Linksys. If the customer is a larger business client or someone who needs higher reliability and better features we often load up Mikrotik on a Routerboard or WRAP board. Scriv Bo Hamilton wrote: Wondering what routers are all of you using at client installs? What are the most reliable and so on? thanks in advance! Bo NCOWireless.com -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Client Router selection
On Tue, April 4, 2006 12:24 pm, John Scrivner wrote: Sorry to answer my own post but I should also mention that if I ever have a larger enterprise client (like a college, hospital, etc.) that needs a bullet-proof routing solution I will likely sell them Imagestream. My next big router for my core will be an Imagestream. Everyone I speak to about them say they are the best out there at any price. Obviously, it depends on the customer. Chances are, anyone THAT big will have their own in-house IT staff, and will want to do things their own way. Chances are that means Cisco gear. If they want to pay for it, I can probably make it work... It'd have to be an awfully big customer to justify even an Imagestream, though, much less a Cisco. WRAPs and RouterBoard 200s can reliably handle traffic up to 15Mbps or so, and probably even more if the board is just routing (i.e. you're not also using it with a radio card to connect to something else). Plus, if you get those sekzi finished WRAP cases that Eje sells, it just looks so darn cool. If you were so inclined, you could probably make little stickers that say Cisco PIX, put one on the case, and most customers would be none the wiser. It's about the same size and everything... :) Heck, this email comes to you by way of an old Celeron 1.3GHz PC that's routing our whole network, over 25Mbps at peak times, that never goes over about 10% CPU utilization, running Mikrotik RouterOS. If it's good enough for WISPA, it's probably good enough for most of your customers. I'd love to have a Cisco in that role, but the only real differences would be: * Access to Cisco TAC for support * Paying about ten times the cost The money I save will buy me a LOT of mailing lists and forums posts if I ever need help. :) David Smith MVN.net -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Client Router selection
All of our system routers are MikroTik OS on PC hardware. As well as our T1 interfaces. We are rapidly moving to deploying a small MikroTik at our towers as well. As to customer routers, we tend to use Netgear. But, if the customer provides another unit, we will set that up for them. David E. Smith wrote: On Tue, April 4, 2006 12:24 pm, John Scrivner wrote: Sorry to answer my own post but I should also mention that if I ever have a larger enterprise client (like a college, hospital, etc.) that needs a bullet-proof routing solution I will likely sell them Imagestream. My next big router for my core will be an Imagestream. Everyone I speak to about them say they are the best out there at any price. Obviously, it depends on the customer. Chances are, anyone THAT big will have their own in-house IT staff, and will want to do things their own way. Chances are that means Cisco gear. If they want to pay for it, I can probably make it work... It'd have to be an awfully big customer to justify even an Imagestream, though, much less a Cisco. WRAPs and RouterBoard 200s can reliably handle traffic up to 15Mbps or so, and probably even more if the board is "just" routing (i.e. you're not also using it with a radio card to connect to something else). Plus, if you get those sekzi finished WRAP cases that Eje sells, it just looks so darn cool. If you were so inclined, you could probably make little stickers that say "Cisco PIX", put one on the case, and most customers would be none the wiser. It's about the same size and everything... :) Heck, this email comes to you by way of an old Celeron 1.3GHz PC that's routing our whole network, over 25Mbps at peak times, that never goes over about 10% CPU utilization, running Mikrotik RouterOS. If it's good enough for WISPA, it's probably good enough for most of your customers. I'd love to have a Cisco in that role, but the only real differences would be: * Access to Cisco TAC for support * Paying about ten times the cost The money I save will buy me a LOT of mailing lists and forums posts if I ever need help. :) David Smith MVN.net -- Blair Davis AOL IM Screen Name -- Theory240 West Michigan Wireless ISP 269-686-8648 A division of: Camp Communication Services, INC -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Client Router selection
Thanks everyone for all the great posts Bo On 4/4/06, Blair Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All of our system routers are MikroTik OS on PC hardware. As well as our T1 interfaces.We are rapidly moving to deploying a small MikroTik at our towers as well.As to customer routers, we tend to use Netgear. But, if the customer provides another unit, we will set that up for them. David E. Smith wrote: On Tue, April 4, 2006 12:24 pm, John Scrivner wrote: Sorry to answer my own post but I should also mention that if I ever have a larger enterprise client (like a college, hospital, etc.) that needs a bullet-proof routing solution I will likely sell them Imagestream. My next big router for my core will be an Imagestream. Everyone I speak to about them say they are the best out there at any price. Obviously, it depends on the customer. Chances are, anyone THAT big will have their own in-house IT staff, and will want to do things their own way. Chances are that means Cisco gear. If they want to pay for it, I can probably make it work... It'd have to be an awfully big customer to justify even an Imagestream, though, much less a Cisco. WRAPs and RouterBoard 200s can reliably handle traffic up to 15Mbps or so, and probably even more if the board is just routing (i.e. you're not also using it with a radio card to connect to something else). Plus, if you get those sekzi finished WRAP cases that Eje sells, it just looks so darn cool. If you were so inclined, you could probably make little stickers that say Cisco PIX, put one on the case, and most customers would be none the wiser. It's about the same size and everything... :) Heck, this email comes to you by way of an old Celeron 1.3GHz PC that's routing our whole network, over 25Mbps at peak times, that never goes over about 10% CPU utilization, running Mikrotik RouterOS. If it's good enough for WISPA, it's probably good enough for most of your customers. I'd love to have a Cisco in that role, but the only real differences would be: * Access to Cisco TAC for support * Paying about ten times the cost The money I save will buy me a LOT of mailing lists and forums posts if I ever need help. :) David Smith MVN.net -- Blair Davis AOL IM Screen Name -- Theory240 West Michigan Wireless ISP 269-686-8648 A division of: Camp Communication Services, INC --WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.orgSubscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wirelessArchives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
