Cisco router for VM 50Mb?

paradigm

paradigm

paradigm

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I've just about had it with the quite frankly shonky ADSL that we can receive here, and have been holding out until VM released their 50Mb service to our street (happened last month according to my email notification).

However, I'm currently (and always for that matter) studying for a CCNP (and after that a CCIE), I have run Cisco routers and switches for the last 3 years and would never go back to anything else. Not only are they the best for my studying (can use my labs in real life scenarios), but I also quite heavily use their features on a day-to-day basis.

With this in mind, does anyone happen to know if the older Cisco hardware (I've got a 2611XM left over from when I did my CCNA, I changed to an 877m to use on an annex-m ADSL line) has the grunt for a 50Mb line?

If not, will a 2651XM do? As I can get hold of one of those.

If not, what product line am I looking at (if anyone knows)?
 
Cisco 1800 series has 2 ethernet interfaces, so without any WICs it will do what you need no problems. Alternatively the 871 would work well too
 
The 1800 comes with a rackmount kit :)

I see no reason why they wouldnt work well if you've got 2 100mbit ethernet interfaces - if you've already got the kit you could quickly test throughput on them
 
Rich said:
ASA 5505. Wildcard option for the win :D
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Not a bad suggestion TBH, as according to the PDF in my linky above you're going to need a 1861 or 2800 series to get the kind of throughput a 50mbit line is going to require.

Or have I interpreted that information wrong? :)
 
Eurgh ASA :p

Cheers for the link wij, although I'm unsure of it in this context if I'm honest, going to have to benchmark with the kit I've got to see if it relates to what is said.
 
I use an 1841 on 20Mbit, its fine for normal usage, CPU hits 50% at 20Mbps with several hundred torrents peers, long after most consumer kit hauls ass... I rekon an 1841 will shudder a little with heavy P2P at 50Mbit. It should be fine for most other stuff though, get a 2800 if you're gonna leather it.


Good luck getting your number :) the best part about the CCIE lab is going for lunch halfway through and looking at everyone else's faces in the lift on the way down, like being in a lift with the infected off L4D :D
 
Well I've "obtained" the 2651XM, I see no reason given the performance of a 2651 (non XM) on a VM 20Mb line that the 2651XM won't be able to cope. But we shall see.

If that fails to carry the load then I'll be on the lookout for a decent 1800/2800 series.
 
iaind said:
The 1800 comes with a rackmount kit :)

I see no reason why they wouldnt work well if you've got 2 100mbit ethernet interfaces - if you've already got the kit you could quickly test throughput on them
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They do? We always have to order them seperately....
Guess there is a bundle partcode. Not really my thing, I just configure the buggers, someone else does the buying :D
 
When I was speccing solution at that kind of bandwidth I was looking at a 2800 ISR of some description. I didn't trust the 1800 (and I tested it to make sure) for connections over 30-35Mbps. The 2621XM I know is rubbish, commonly wouldn't pass more than 20Mbit of traffic.

All this depends on your configuration of course, some features disproportionately hit performance and it's not always the ones you'd expect...
 
Rich said:
They do? We always have to order them seperately....
Guess there is a bundle partcode. Not really my thing, I just configure the buggers, someone else does the buying :D
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The old ones didn't, they couldnt even be rackmounted properly. But the new ones seem to. At least the one I had provided by NTL did - arrived at me still Cisco sealed with the rack kit in the box
 
Couple of things - The link to the Cisco PDF with maximum throughput speeds is based on 64byte packets, normal day to day traffic will always have a larger than 64byte packet.

I have a Cisco 1801 which was used on my crappy work DSL line before getting my VM 50Mb, I have no problems at all hitting 50Mb.

:)

Mike
 
paradigm said:
Just to say that I've been more than fine with my 2651XM.
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Might have to look into getting one of these, was looking into it a while back but never bothered for some reason. Have got a few 2621xm routers lieing around at home but gathered they probably couldn't cope with 50meg..

Whats the sort of bandwidth a 2651xm can cope with? Just in case Virgin bring out any speed upgrades in the future! :)
 
I suppose thats not too bad.. If I can find one cheap enough I'll get it and set it up, then when the speed gets increased, I'll just add it to my lab instead! :)
 
Street said:
I suppose thats not too bad.. If I can find one cheap enough I'll get it and set it up, then when the speed gets increased, I'll just add it to my lab instead! :)
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That's my plan, my "lab" is growing at an alarming rate though, but my 2651XM will become part of my voice lab, given it now has an NM-HDV, PSTN card (and I have a PRI-ISDN card for if I fancy routing voice over ISDN), 3x PVDM-12 modules, a full compliment of RAM and Flash, and two WIC1-ADSL cards. It has a nice IPvoice IOS on it, and callmanager express :) Couple that to my 4 3524 PoE switches, my 2 3548XL's and my 871, I've got a pretty nice lab environment.

It's a hefty 2651XM :D
 
Ahhh excellent thread.

I was about to post some thing along these lines.

Where abouts other then eBay is a good place to get Cisco stuff from?

As i have been after a 1841.
 
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