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qasdfdsaq

11-10-2015 17:40

Re: Router, dual WAN capability

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Originally Posted by Matthew (Post 35802851)

If your going to look at pFsense look at buying a Watchguard box off eBay and putting pFsense on it, cheaper than above.

Care to post an example? The only ones I can find quote throughput figures less than 1/10th what he needs.

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Originally Posted by Uncle Peter (Post 35802968)

Watch out with those boxes dude, those throughput claims are pretty optimistic.

Optimistic? The ones I see on eBay quote 125Mbps firewall/20Mbps VPN! My mobile phone can do more than that.

Carlos Carboni

11-10-2015 18:45

Re: Router, dual WAN capability

Igintion mentioned ebay XTM 505
A bit expensive.

Aren't these

ERPro-8 Ubiquiti EdgeRouter PRO

a better choice? We have some of these at work and they are highly respected.

Uncle Peter

11-10-2015 23:55

Re: Router, dual WAN capability

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq (Post 35803056)

Care to post an example? The only ones I can find quote throughput figures less than 1/10th what he needs.

---------- Post added at 17:40 ---------- Previous post was at 17:38 ----------

Optimistic? The ones I see on eBay quote 125Mbps firewall/20Mbps VPN! My mobile phone can do more than that.

3.5Gbps claim of some arbitrary throughput measure on one of those Watchguard appliances which aren't actually that cheap.

qasdfdsaq

12-10-2015 12:35

Re: Router, dual WAN capability

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Originally Posted by Uncle Peter (Post 35803092)

3.5Gbps claim of some arbitrary throughput measure on one of those Watchguard appliances which aren't actually that cheap.

And that's exactly why I dislike proprietary "black box" systems.

Ignitionnet

12-10-2015 14:06

Re: Router, dual WAN capability

I have re-evaluated and while load balancing to reach 1.3Gb/s may be good for the e-penis it's not worth the hassle, so I'll run the 2 in active-passive, meaning line rate gigabit downstream and ~100Mb upstream simultaneously is fine, which brings me back into scope of highest-end home routers.

This works well for me as I hate messing with my home network, KISS, and I have a few months before I have to worry about a purchase so can wait for prices of current top-end kit to drop.

Thanks for the input!

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