nanog mailing list archives
Re: Home CPE choice
From: Iain Morris <iain.t.morris () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:23:50 -0700
Juniper's SSG5 and SRX100 are nice options for home. I've enjoyed an SSG5 for awhile now. SRX100 for junos. SSG5's pop up on ebay occasionally for a few $100. -Iain On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Marty Anstey <marty.anstey () sunwave net>wrote:
Hopefully this e-mail is considered operational content :) The recent thread on the new linkys kit and ipv6 support got me thinking about CPE choice. What good off the shelf solutions are out there? Should one buy the high end d-link/linksys/netgear products? I've had bad experiences with those (netgear in particular). Should one get a "real" cisco router? The 877 or something? Maybe an ASA or the new small business targeted ISR (can't recall the model number off hand right now). There is mikrotik but I'm not so sure about the operating system. Is there a market for a new breed of CPE running OpenWRT or pfsense on hardware with enough CPU/RAM to not fall over? Granted that won't cost $79.00 at best buy. However it seems to me that decent CPE is going to run a couple hundred dollars in order to have sufficient ram/cpu. My current home router is a cisco 1841. I keep my 6mbps DSL line pretty much saturated all the time. Often times my wife will be watching Hulu in the living room, I'll be streaming music and running torrents (granted I have tuned my Azures client fairly well) all at the same time and it's a good experience. Running that kind of traffic load through my linksys would cause it to need a reboot once or more a day. What are folks here running in SOHO environments that doesn't require too frequent oil changes :)I run FreeBSD on a PIII; I can easily saturate my 15mbit cable connection without it breaking a sweat. I also have a couple Cisco 2610's, one of which is my ipv6 tunnel endpoint. -M
-- -- - Iain Morris iain.t.morris () gmail com
Current thread:
- Home CPE choice Charles N Wyble (Mar 31)
- Re: Home CPE choice Jack Carrozzo (Mar 31)
- Re: Home CPE choice Charles N Wyble (Mar 31)
- RE: Home CPE choice Joe Johnson (Mar 31)
- Re: Home CPE choice Charles N Wyble (Mar 31)
- Re: Home CPE choice William Warren (Mar 31)
- Re: Home CPE choice Charles N Wyble (Mar 31)
- Re: Home CPE choice Marty Anstey (Mar 31)
- Re: Home CPE choice Iain Morris (Mar 31)
- Re: Home CPE choice Leen Besselink (Mar 31)
- RE: Home CPE choice Blake Pfankuch (Mar 31)
- Re: Home CPE choice Jeff Johnstone (Mar 31)
- Re: Home CPE choice Michael Dillon (Mar 31)
- Re: Home CPE choice Nick Hilliard (Mar 31)
- Re: Home CPE choice Charles N Wyble (Mar 31)
- Re: Home CPE choice David Andersen (Mar 31)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Home CPE choice jonesnco (Mar 31)
- Re: Home CPE choice Jack Carrozzo (Mar 31)