Re: Sky Fibre and VM BB
 

Ive given up on the idea btw lol lol

Re: Sky Fibre and VM BB
 

LOL!! I know, I'm just too easy going ..... :)

Re: Sky Fibre and VM BB
 

I don't see the point in your knocking me for my choice. It's negative and unhelpful.

But my point is it's something a £10 router could reliably handle, if not better.

Any router that runs OpenWRT or modern editions of DD-WRT. Prime example being the DIR-615. You can set it up with 50 WANs if you dare.

Start here: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start

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See I don't tend to rely on companies marketing their own proprietary implementations of basic concepts at any price, particularly where I know all WANs of any type on non-rack routers are essentially software functions.

Hence I prefer to go for standard, open, tried and trusted implementations. In this case, anything that runs Linux can support dual-WAN (or any number of WANs). Linux software has long been an industry standard for network-heavy and complex tasks - anywhere that needs powerful, reliable, and flexible routing of any kind will inevitably run Linux. Hence, any router that runs an open version of Linux will allow you to implement any industry-standard WAN setup available to any other Linux router.

Buying one with it pre-equipped is just paying a large markup for someone else to install free software on it for you and stick their label on it.

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Who else are you supposed to give credit to for my remarks? My mother?!

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DIR-615.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=dd-wrt+multi+wan
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=openwrt+multi+wan
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=linux+multi+wan

Re: Sky Fibre and VM BB
 

Qasi,

Nice information, albeit after I've made my purchase ;)

In reality I doubt if I would have managed to get all this stuff working, hence the 'buy off the shelf'.
Maybe someday I'll get an old 615 and tinker, having said that I do have a RT-16 doing nothing ...... Hmmm I wonder .......

Re: Sky Fibre and VM BB
 

Yes I admit it's not easy or user friendly - *but* some companies have actually shipped off-the-shelf routers with these open source operating systems installed (they weren't too popular, not unlike the Dell laptops with factory installed Ubuntu linux).

But in my previous job one of my main duties was to manage a pile of open-source Linux servers and enterprise routers so for me it's second nature :)

Hell, everything from the Superhub to top-end Cisco and Juniper chassis run some variation of Linux.

Re: Sky Fibre and VM BB
 

While the OpenWRT software is brilliant and can do a ton of things, it is still limited by the hardware it runs on. A 615 could do all those WANS but it's not powerful enough in reality if there is heavy usage. It's not easy for the average consumer to choose a router, yet alone find out how powerful the are underneath.

Talking of CPU power....does anyone know what the max speed of a 615 is, if it is running OpenVPN software and all the traffic going through the tunnel? Another example of the CPU being the limiting factor but could still be useful :)

Re: Sky Fibre and VM BB
 

If you use the hardware accelerated NAT it does about 800Mbps, or rather 5% CPU usage while maxing out a 100Mbps port.

If you don't use hardware acceleration it can handle about 160Mbps in software depending on the software used.

Re: Sky Fibre and VM BB
 

The hardware is made for NAT but was thinking about the 615 doing the grunt of the OpenVPN work rather than just passing through the data from another device.

I ran a VPN server on the Raspberry Pi and throughput was terrible because of the strain it put on the Cpu. Putting it on a Synology NAS (with floating point) was better but the CPU was still the limiting factor. Don't expect an old bit of hardware like the 615 to be able to do much better when it comes to running OpenVPN. Pushing data through unaltered is another story though.

Re: Sky Fibre and VM BB
 

No, you're right there. Hardware accelerated NAT will accelerate... well... NAT, and not VPN. Software VPN, last I checked, ran at about 60-80Mbps.

Of course, you could bond two of them using a third, upstream DIR-615 and split the load :P

Re: Sky Fibre and VM BB
 

Cheers, that has just solved a problem for a friend :)

Load splitting for those who have way too man 615's than they should do :lol:

Re: Sky Fibre and VM BB
 

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2013/09/5.jpg
What are you insinuating?!

(P.S. My collection's grown about 3x since then >_>)