High Throughput Router for FTTC

Rizo-UK · 21 Jan 2015 at 19:01

Im trying to source a router that has good throughtput, gigabit ports, QOS but no wireless.

They all have wireless built in.

Anything around? 2nd hand on ebay, ex business equipment etc.

ChrisD. · 21 Jan 2015 at 19:16

Budget? Could get a Cisco router with EHWIC VDSL card.

Or get one of the ASUS routers and disable wireless.

Rizo-UK · 21 Jan 2015 at 19:18

I dont really have a budget tbh. Anything goes

Are the ASUS routers really that good? It'll be linked to a BTO HG612

RSR · 21 Jan 2015 at 19:19

Have a look at the Ubiquiti EdgeMax Series.

Rizo-UK · 21 Jan 2015 at 19:22

Will do Andy

philip2009 · 21 Jan 2015 at 19:25

The Ubiquiti EdgeRouters are pretty quick - http://www.ubnt.com/products/#all/routing . Here is a QOS primer -

If you want to play around with the EdgeRouter OS you can download VyOS(both come from Vyatta) - http://vyos.net/wiki/Main_Page

ChrisD. · 21 Jan 2015 at 19:29

Rizo-UK said:
I dont really have a budget tbh. Anything goes

Are the ASUS routers really that good? It'll be linked to a BTO HG612

Yes they are.

Rizo-UK · 21 Jan 2015 at 19:31

The ERLite-3 looks like a good bit of kit for £90.

Anyone have any first hand experience with them?

RSR · 21 Jan 2015 at 19:35

Rizo-UK said:
The ERLite-3 looks like a good bit of kit for £90.

Anyone have any first hand experience with them?

I run a ER PoE at home, which I use with my FTTC connection and its very impressive bit of kit for the money. I binned off my ASA and replaced it with the ER.

Rizo-UK · 21 Jan 2015 at 19:41

Easy enough to set up with the GUI?

philip2009 · 21 Jan 2015 at 19:45

Rizo-UK said:
The ERLite-3 looks like a good bit of kit for £90.

Anyone have any first hand experience with them?

Yes, I have one. No problems with it, essentially it's(EdgeOS/Vyatta/VyOS) a Debian based router OS - you can install packages just like a Linux distro. The routing speed of the Lite is down to hardware offload for packet handling - the hardware offload works for LAN connections and more recently PPPoE connections, but if you bridge network ports to form a switch you lose the hardware acceleration on those ports(AFAIK).

Check out the community forum it's pretty decent - http://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeMAX/bd-p/EdgeMAX

philip2009 · 21 Jan 2015 at 20:05

Rizo-UK said:
Easy enough to set up with the GUI?

Here is a setup screen(didn't have this luxury when I bought mine

) -

So basically you end up using one port for the WAN another for the LAN, and another spare.

Rizo-UK · 21 Jan 2015 at 20:11

Thats spot on Phillip. Much appreciated!

philip2009 · 21 Jan 2015 at 20:26

For what it's worth here's a little performance test on the Lite - https://blog.linitx.com/ubiquiti-edgerouter-performance-testing/ - actually I've seen speeds much closer to 1Gb when people have tested it on 1Gb net connections.

RSR · 21 Jan 2015 at 21:02

1.6 firmware greatly improves the gui.

Sin_Chase · 21 Jan 2015 at 21:36

I have 1Gigabit FTTH being installed soon.

I just picked up an EdgeRouter Lite based on this thread and subsequent reviews I found online. Near to wirespeed routing, even if it sucks it only cost me £70! It will be repalcing my pfSense router which is running on an ancient IBM desktop

I was interested in the Edgerouter 8 port, but that's £240ish - Could not find any reviews of real world throughput on it so was not willing to dump 3x the money on it.

ChrisD. · 21 Jan 2015 at 21:45

Sin_Chase said:
I have 1Gigabit FTTH being installed soon.

Which provider?

Sin_Chase · 21 Jan 2015 at 22:01

I live in Jersey, it's available on Jersey Telecoms or Sure. Naturally..only in Jersey

Admetos · 21 Jan 2015 at 23:43

Gigabit Ethernet LAN switch with up to 50,000 simultaneous NAT sessions. Very good router, but maybe overkill for home use.

Vigor 2860 is non WiFi version. (2860n is Wifi version)
http://www.draytek.co.uk/products/business/vigor-2860

Kei · 22 Jan 2015 at 12:56

I'm using a cisco 1921 router with bt infinity 2 via an ECI openreach modem. Best thing I've ever done, it's more than happy to run with my line speed of 75/18mbps (supposedly capable of over 800mbps with minimal ip services) and so far, hasn't needed touching since i fitted/configured it in november. Once configured properly, I've not found anything that doesn't work. Best bit was that it cost sub £200. (admittedly not as cheap as the edge router, but a well proven solution)

The rest of the network dangles off an hp 1910, a netgear GS108 and the wireless off a dlink dap-2695 access point.