Re: [WISPA] Dual-WAN routers

2007-01-22 Thread Matt Liotta
RickG wrote: Dave, Thanks for the explanation. Really, my clients want to improve their browsing speed. Of course, like most people, they associate speed with speed test website such as speakeasy, etc. In order to improve speed you need lower RTT and less congestion/packet loss on any given

Re: [WISPA] Dual-WAN routers

2007-01-22 Thread RickG
Thanks Matt! Yes, the first thing I did was set up my own speed test site on net. On 1/22/07, Matt Liotta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RickG wrote: Dave, Thanks for the explanation. Really, my clients want to improve their browsing speed. Of course, like most people, they associate speed with

Re: [WISPA] Dual-WAN routers

2007-01-21 Thread RickG
This has been the case for me. Everyone wants a unique connection to the net in case of an outage. Not to beat a dead horse but back to the load-sharing question: According to the responses I'm getting is that load sharing wont work. So, why do I find so many article sayign it does such as

Re: [WISPA] Dual-WAN routers

2007-01-21 Thread David E. Smith
RickG wrote: According to the responses I'm getting is that load sharing wont work. So, why do I find so many article sayign it does such as http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=13103 ? Depends on your definition of load-balancing. Traditionally, that means you can balance traffic

Re: [WISPA] Dual-WAN routers

2007-01-21 Thread RickG
Dave, Thanks for the explanation. Really, my clients want to improve their browsing speed. Of course, like most people, they associate speed with speed test website such as speakeasy, etc. -RickG On 1/21/07, David E. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RickG wrote: According to the responses I'm

Re: [WISPA] Dual-WAN routers

2007-01-20 Thread Tom DeReggi
19, 2007 8:33 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Dual-WAN routers Juat catching up on the list after a busy couple of weeks. So, are we saying that all the products that claim load balancing dont work? I can testify that the auto-failover works but the load sharing seems to make things slower not faster

RE: [WISPA] Dual-WAN routers

2007-01-08 Thread Jeff Broadwick
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Dual-WAN routers On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, David E. Smith wrote: This is for the end user cpe side. I'd like to see both fail-over and load balancing but fail-over is priority. No need for wireless. I'll look into the microtik. Thanks! -RickG Rick, keeping in mind that load

Re: [WISPA] Dual-WAN routers

2007-01-07 Thread RickG
Another thing for my RD department! Thanks! -RickG On 1/7/07, Butch Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, David E. Smith wrote: This is for the end user cpe side. I'd like to see both fail-over and load balancing but fail-over is priority. No need for wireless. I'll look into

RE: [WISPA] Dual-WAN routers

2007-01-06 Thread CHUCK PROFITO
NO EXPERIENCE, BUT AN INTERESTING ARTICLE TO READ AT http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2004/0913rev.html CHUCK -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RickG Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 12:35 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA]

Re: [WISPA] Dual-WAN routers

2007-01-06 Thread David E. Smith
RickG wrote: Hey, I've been testing Dual-WAN routers. I've used Xincom, Linksys, D-Link. The Linksys seems to be most reliable because it has a health check feature. Has anyone out there tried anything else? Are you just looking for redundancy (i.e. automatic failover so if one ISP or

Re: [WISPA] Dual-WAN routers

2007-01-06 Thread RickG
Nice article! Thx! RickG On 1/6/07, CHUCK PROFITO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NO EXPERIENCE, BUT AN INTERESTING ARTICLE TO READ AT http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2004/0913rev.html CHUCK -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RickG Sent:

Re: [WISPA] Dual-WAN routers

2007-01-06 Thread RickG
David, This is for the end user cpe side. I'd like to see both fail-over and load balancing but fail-over is priority. No need for wireless. I'll look into the microtik. Thanks! -RickG On 1/6/07, David E. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RickG wrote: Hey, I've been testing Dual-WAN routers.

Re: [WISPA] Dual-WAN routers

2007-01-06 Thread Butch Evans
On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, David E. Smith wrote: This is for the end user cpe side. I'd like to see both fail-over and load balancing but fail-over is priority. No need for wireless. I'll look into the microtik. Thanks! -RickG Rick, keeping in mind that load balancing where you don't control both

Re: [WISPA] Dual WAN Routers

2006-06-19 Thread Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181
I have a Hawking wireless one. Nothing to write home about thought. If there's a t-1 involved I'd think you'd want to use the cisco (or whatever) that's already on the t-1. If you are going to back up a t-1 I'd certainly look at a higher end unit than a Linksys or something along those

Re: [WISPA] Dual WAN Routers

2006-06-19 Thread Butch Evans
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Bo Hamilton wrote: I'm in the market for a dual WAN router. Could I get some feedback on the some that you guys and gals are using. I have some clients using me as a backup for their T1's, so Im just trying to find out wich one's are the best to go with. Mikrotik with

RE: [WISPA] Dual WAN Routers

2006-06-19 Thread Mac Dearman
Bo, I would use a MikroTik box in an indoor enclosure, The RB532 w/64Megs of ram running OSPF would be easy, fast and as reliable as anything I know. Another solution if you were looking for a rack mount set up would be to get a Cisco router and drop a couple modules in it and do their

Re: [WISPA] Dual WAN Routers

2006-06-19 Thread Sam Tetherow
If you are familiar with RouterOS a routerboard 500 would do the trick and only run you about $175 Sam Tetherow Sandhills Wireless Dylan Oliver wrote: You might check Peplink.com http://Peplink.com for its Balance products - http://www.peplink.com/productsLoader.php?productName=balance

Re: [WISPA] Dual WAN Routers

2006-06-19 Thread Bo Hamilton
Thanks everyone for all the feedback!!! Bo On 6/19/06, Sam Tetherow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are familiar with RouterOS a routerboard 500 would do the trickand only run you about $175 Sam Tetherow Sandhills WirelessDylan Oliver wrote: You might check Peplink.com http://Peplink.com for

RE: [WISPA] Dual WAN Routers

2006-06-19 Thread Charles Wu
Title: Message are you planning on getting your customer an AS running BGP? if not -- and you're willing to roll up your sleaves a bit, you can "hack it" w/ some Mikrotik scripting (In my ISP days, one of my customers back in 2002/2003, Larry Yunker actually, was doing this b/n our

RE: [WISPA] Dual WAN Routers

2006-06-19 Thread Charles Wu
Architectshttp://www.cwlab.com -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mac DearmanSent: Monday, June 19, 2006 10:03 AMTo: 'WISPA General List'Subject: RE: [WISPA] Dual WAN Routers Bo, I would use a MikroTik box

Re: [WISPA] Dual WAN Routers

2006-06-19 Thread Jon Langeler
Unlesss your doing BGP/OSPF or something fancy, might want to check out www.hotbrick.com ~$250. You can configure some nice little things(email alert, universal client on LAN, services 'binding', desired loadbalancing %, etc.)in a matter of minutes that would take considerably longer on a