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First some background....
My Virgin Media cable modem/router loses the port forwarding rules when it's unplugged, which is a pain for the services I use that don't use UPnP. I'm fed up with it happening (it's not often, but it is painful), it wouldn't be so bad if there was a way to upload the settings, but no, you have to put them in one at a time by hand. I guess I 'could' write a script to access the router and do this for me, but that's going to take some time and a fair bit of testing - I'd rather not!
It's a pretty common bug for the people who use the feature, it doesn't appear to be a hardware issue. I don't see this being fixed any time soon. the box seems to perform well other than that.
So, it's time to find a router!
I have various PCs wired via a 'marginally managed' smart switch (I use the port mirroring to snoop on my arduinos when debugging network code).
Some PCs host services such as games and voice. Wi-fi is used by my phone and a laptop occasionally, so assuming I couldn't loop-back to the virgin box to utilise the wi-fi, the solution would need to provide this as well (not necessarily in the same box).
I'm ideally after the cheapest option. This could involve buying a new box, or utilising an existing linux PC and adding an extra NIC/wifi. The cost of some of the boxes I've seen are actually cheaper than that.
Speed is potentially an issue, currently it's only 200/20, but I expect this to increase over time, I'd like the solution to be able to deal with the foreseeable future, which is probably around 1000/100. Steam will eat this during updates so it is useful to utilise all the available WAN bandwidth I can
latency probably isn't a concern, I would expect it to be well below 1ms though.
I'd spend a bit more if I could get more interesting features, this guy built his own:
https://blog.tjll.net/building-my-perfect-router/
I'd be reasonably comfortable going down this sort of route if it's sensible to do so, I like the flexibility though I don't actually know what features I might find useful, never having had them before!
Are the really cheap travel routers good for 24/7 operation or are these just a no-go?
So, the options are quite wide ranging, if anyone an point me in a direction that would be great. (tho I suspect there will be questions first on the stuff I've neglected to mention).
My Virgin Media cable modem/router loses the port forwarding rules when it's unplugged, which is a pain for the services I use that don't use UPnP. I'm fed up with it happening (it's not often, but it is painful), it wouldn't be so bad if there was a way to upload the settings, but no, you have to put them in one at a time by hand. I guess I 'could' write a script to access the router and do this for me, but that's going to take some time and a fair bit of testing - I'd rather not!
It's a pretty common bug for the people who use the feature, it doesn't appear to be a hardware issue. I don't see this being fixed any time soon. the box seems to perform well other than that.
So, it's time to find a router!
I have various PCs wired via a 'marginally managed' smart switch (I use the port mirroring to snoop on my arduinos when debugging network code).
Some PCs host services such as games and voice. Wi-fi is used by my phone and a laptop occasionally, so assuming I couldn't loop-back to the virgin box to utilise the wi-fi, the solution would need to provide this as well (not necessarily in the same box).
I'm ideally after the cheapest option. This could involve buying a new box, or utilising an existing linux PC and adding an extra NIC/wifi. The cost of some of the boxes I've seen are actually cheaper than that.
Speed is potentially an issue, currently it's only 200/20, but I expect this to increase over time, I'd like the solution to be able to deal with the foreseeable future, which is probably around 1000/100. Steam will eat this during updates so it is useful to utilise all the available WAN bandwidth I can
latency probably isn't a concern, I would expect it to be well below 1ms though.
I'd spend a bit more if I could get more interesting features, this guy built his own:
https://blog.tjll.net/building-my-perfect-router/
I'd be reasonably comfortable going down this sort of route if it's sensible to do so, I like the flexibility though I don't actually know what features I might find useful, never having had them before!
Are the really cheap travel routers good for 24/7 operation or are these just a no-go?
So, the options are quite wide ranging, if anyone an point me in a direction that would be great. (tho I suspect there will be questions first on the stuff I've neglected to mention).