Small Business Router

K.C. Leblanc · 1 Mar 2015 at 16:56

Hiya,

I'm after a router that'll do Vlans and work with a TalkTalk Fibre broadband connection.

At the moment I'm looking at the Draytek Vigor 2760, does anyone have any other suggestions.

Caged · 1 Mar 2015 at 17:29

I doubt you'll do better for the money. I was about to suggest a Cisco ASA 5506-X but that's a completely different price bracket.

Xez · 1 Mar 2015 at 17:50

What kind of broadband speed? If its up to 40Mbps then a Cisco 887VA, the earlier versions could handle more but they don't have a massive throughput.

Good reliable router for a small business, anything more and I would recommend a Cisco 1921 with VDSL module but they are a lot more expensive...

K.C. Leblanc · 1 Mar 2015 at 18:13

It's going to be a 40 meg connection.

However we are looking at a very small setup, since we only have 3 clients.

It's for a venue/community centre. We want to be able to offer users access to the broadband but keep them away from our network.

We already have a deliberant AP which does VLANs and virtual APs.

Do you you guys think the Draytek would be up to the job?

Steveocee · 1 Mar 2015 at 18:43

Draytek is the prime option.
Mikrotik is an idea also.

Caged · 1 Mar 2015 at 18:53

The DrayTek will be more than fine. There are reasonably cheap third-party rack kits available for it as well which means if and when the time comes to install it all into a cabinet, you don't have to bodge it with a shelf.

K.C. Leblanc · 1 Mar 2015 at 19:26

Cheers guys,

Moeks · 5 Mar 2015 at 21:08

If you wanted to spend a bit more than the Draytek but get more and modular functionality you could go with a Sophos UTM 120 and add extra features if you need, it's all done in software. It's very good with the Sophos Red's for managing VPN's to remote offices.

Caged · 5 Mar 2015 at 22:33

It's not a bad suggestion, but it's far from a "bit more" - there's the higher initial purchase price, the cost of a DSL modem, and the ongoing licensing fees. Make sure you are aware of the TCO before going down that path.

Moeks · 6 Mar 2015 at 08:07

Well fair point yes, perhaps I should have said a 'bit' more ...the feature set is very impressive though and you do indeed require a model, all the remote sites would require a modem to make the connections their end in addition to the Red device too.

Euphoria · 14 Mar 2015 at 10:32

Caged said:
The DrayTek will be more than fine. There are reasonably cheap third-party rack kits available for it as well which means if and when the time comes to install it all into a cabinet, you don't have to bodge it with a shelf.

I second that, i moved from CISCO to DrayTek and there are far less bugs in the DrayTek than in the CISCO.

Whatever you do DO NOT buy a first revision of a draytek, wait until they have had a few firmware releases out.