New router needed

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Need a bit of help/advice if someone could spare me a few mins.


Virgin have recently kindly upgraded me to 152m but I've been unable to achieve beyond 90-95 ever.

I left it a little while thinking that things would catch up but they didn't. I run my SH2 in modem only mode which feeds my old trusty Draytek 2830n for routing. I dont use the wireless on it at all but use ubiquiti AP's dotted around.

I tried ditching the 2830 the other day and plugged the SH2 straight into my PC (still in modem mode) and got 144m. Then tried switching it back to router mode and got pretty much the same speeds. Seems my 2830 is not up to the job even though it's supposed to have a gigabit switch internally and gigabit on the Wan2 port.

The simple solution would be to use the SH2 but it lacks the feature set of the 2830, some of which I dont want to go without. The most important is to be able to change bandwidth limits per static IP and also have a default limit.


I've no need for a wireless router and am open to a self built bit of kit - I used to be a smoothwall user many moons ago and would be happy to learn/build whatever I need within a reasonable budget. Whatever I get would have to be power efficient as an priority, don't really want some old PC sucking electricity for no particular reason.

Anyway if anyone has some advice/pointers I'd appreciate it :)
 
I read a while ago the 2830's struggle pushing over 130Mb WAN throguhput, yes the port may be gigabit but when you start throwing NAT duties and firewall stuff into it then it bogs down horrifically.

If you're already a UBNT lover then take a look at the Edgerouter Lite as that is small, amazingly stable, super sexy and will be power efficient. Try not to get sucked into the "new" Edgerouter-X model as it's pants in comparison.
 
The 2830 is getting a bit long in the tooth. I like and use DrayTek routers, but raw throughput isn't their strongpoint.

DrayTek only claim 90Mb/s for the 2830 which is about what you’re seeing.

They do have more recent models that should be able to handle the throughput you need (2860/2925). The wired only models aren’t too expensive if you need the feature set.
 
ubiquiti edgerouter lite and a gigabit switch,could even get their poe switch which would work with your aps
 
Can't work out if the edgerouter can do per ip bandwidth throttling?

Bremen is there a spec somewhere that shows the maximum throughput of drayteks?
 
Consider pfsense on some energy efficient hardware. The reason I say this is DrayTek (although great at offering long term support and security updates and making decent kit) have a habit of being optimistic in terms of WAN throughput and i'd bet my left nut that VM will up the speeds significantly sooner rather than later, pfsense can and will scale easily, if you need more power drop a better CPU in, the DrayTek will be landfill sooner rather than later and you'll be buying another one in a few years.
 
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