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Best Router available < $100?
- Thread starter ps2cho
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dont think youll get much for $100 buddy
http://routerboard.com/
They are awesome!
They are awesome!
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This is exactly what I was going to suggest. Couple it with a switch and you can have as many ports as you want.
Second this, I've been really happy with my routerboard.
Not as simple to set up though, so don't consider it unless you want to invest a bit of time into it. Though no harder then Cisco / Juniper (but you really have to use the command line as the web ui sucks).
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Considered routerboard, but after going through my parts box, I'd need a new motherboard which combined with the extra energy, space and noise use from a physical computer makes no sense.
Decided to go with the Asus N56u for $106 @ newegg. All the reviews seem to be about the best of most boards in that price range.
Decided to go with the Asus N56u for $106 @ newegg. All the reviews seem to be about the best of most boards in that price range.
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ASUS N-series is a good bet, but, I am sure you could have worked something out with Intel Atom / the classifieds.
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I have never been convinced that Pfsense, Smoothwall etc are worthwhile for home setups given the extra hardware, heat and power consumption required. I am running a DIR 615 with DD-WRT, a DIR 635 as an N only AP and a Gigabit switch, the total cost of which was under £20 (routers were second hand).
What would an Atom setup offer the home user for 4-5x the purchase cost and 10x the power draw? A better firewall would be nice, but other than that it seems like a whole load of VPN, QOS and redundancy features which I personally would never use.
I realise that just playing with gear can be fun, but I restrict this to non 24/7 home 'mission' critical machines.
EDIT: Waits for thideras to reply
What would an Atom setup offer the home user for 4-5x the purchase cost and 10x the power draw? A better firewall would be nice, but other than that it seems like a whole load of VPN, QOS and redundancy features which I personally would never use.
I realise that just playing with gear can be fun, but I restrict this to non 24/7 home 'mission' critical machines.
EDIT: Waits for thideras to reply
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pfSense offers a superb QoS system, squid with squidguard (anti-ad, malware, fraud... etc), anti-virus system with clamav, RADIUS server, upnp server, and a lot of useful stuff.
They come in small preconfigured boxes too, I have a routerboard 450G with 256MB ram and 5 gigabit interfaces. Handles my 100mbit fiber connection without breaking a sweat.
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Bought the same one about a month ago, i love it. No issues at all, and it handles everything i can throw at it.
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Is anyone aware of any gateway software (other than the WRT family) which runs on ARM?
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