Soldato
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So I've been happily using my (very old) Draytek 2680 since signing up, but tonight the router started restarting multiple times per hour (confirmed by system uptime).... I think it's time may have come 
I plugged the ISP provided router in and it seems stable now, plus it's getting faster speeds than the poor old draytek (which was obviously not built with modern speeds in mind)
was getting 400mbps +/- 5% on that, ISP router is >500 consistently.
I have a couple of issues with it though:
- Not enough ports - It has 1 for WAN and 2 extras, which is enough for my PC and WiFi access point, but need more for other things (powerline,NAS, whatever else I might want to plug in)
- Features - I like the Draytek interface and had things like port forwards set up, also want to maintain other features such as VLAN as well as MAC spoofing in case I ever need them. The ISP interface is clunky and unfamiliar...
WiFi is not a consideration, as I have a TP link EAP that does everything I need from it. I looked at more modern Drayteks, but would rather not spend that sort of money and looking for any other suggestions, preferably <£100...
Is there something else with enterprise features I should be looking at (Mikrotik, Ubiquiti etc)? - I have an 8port Netgear (I think) switch somewhere but can't find it right now, might fall back to this but would prefer less devices/power supplies running!

I plugged the ISP provided router in and it seems stable now, plus it's getting faster speeds than the poor old draytek (which was obviously not built with modern speeds in mind)

I have a couple of issues with it though:
- Not enough ports - It has 1 for WAN and 2 extras, which is enough for my PC and WiFi access point, but need more for other things (powerline,NAS, whatever else I might want to plug in)
- Features - I like the Draytek interface and had things like port forwards set up, also want to maintain other features such as VLAN as well as MAC spoofing in case I ever need them. The ISP interface is clunky and unfamiliar...
WiFi is not a consideration, as I have a TP link EAP that does everything I need from it. I looked at more modern Drayteks, but would rather not spend that sort of money and looking for any other suggestions, preferably <£100...
Is there something else with enterprise features I should be looking at (Mikrotik, Ubiquiti etc)? - I have an 8port Netgear (I think) switch somewhere but can't find it right now, might fall back to this but would prefer less devices/power supplies running!