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)?
 
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.
 
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.
 
Street said:
Whats the sort of bandwidth a 2651xm can cope with? Just in case Virgin bring out any speed upgrades in the future! :)
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With an MTU of 1400 and a modest set of nat policies and ACL's I can pull around 70Mb/s through it.

The next speedbump is meant to be to 100Mb/s which the 2651 just won't cut.
 
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
 
Yeah an 1841 would be ideal, and there have been some relative ebay bargains that I've missed by the skin of my teeth (most notable was a few months ago when an 1841 went for £220!).
 
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