Spec me a cisco router?

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Ive got Virgin Media 120MB cable.

I want to get into cisco routers and connect it to my virgin box, and use the virgin box as jsut a modem.

Now, can someone recommend a cisco wireless/wired router that can handle this sort of connection speed, has IOS and is FANLESS??

I can see the 800 series, but they only do 15Mbps for christ sakes!!!
 
DJMK4 said:
So you are wanting to have your virgin box acting as the modem? and this will connect to the cisco via an ethernet cable presumably to a FastEthernet or GigabitEthernet port? If so how would the 800 series be limiting you to 15mbps? surely it will give you 100mb full duplex speeds

I think if you wanted wireless aswel and want it rack mountable, you will be looking at two separate units, the router and a separate wireless access point.

For instance Cisco 892 K9 - £500 odd quid new
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Well... I thought that unit despite having a 100mb interface would be limited to 15Mb processing power.

Under the performance positioning on the Cisco 800series models comparison page, it has 15Mbps.

I dont mind two boxes to be honest, as long as they are both rackable, and fanless, as although I have a rack at home with a SAN and servers, everything has been done to keep the noise down to a minimum.

I even had the SAN enclosure power supplies reflashed with different firmware to lower the fanspeeds and quieten everything.

When it comes to Cisco, I am about as good as a woman with a map.. I have no clue about the range. I need something to learn IOS basically, and provide a "enterprise" interface including VPN stuff at home.

Since its going to be on 24/7/365 it needs to be silent, and low power.

Ive just plugged a 2811 series in at work, and its a bit of a screamer, so thats the 2800's out straight away.

Why does the Cisco page have so few models??

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps380/prod_models_comparison.html

I cannot see the 892 you mention... whats the K9 ?

Thanks DJMK
 
Ah yes, but this would be the start of the lab so to speak.

I would bed myself in gently with a router, leave it running, do some advanced stuff on it. I.e setup a VMware view environment, and use the Cisco router for a DMZ, and have a View security server etc etc.

Then later on, i'll add in some more advanced cisco stuff down the line.

Right now I have a few 1810-24G HP switches trunked up and although not entirely enterprise, they do the trick for LACP trunked links and Vlans for the SAN traffic...

Your help is invaluable, I get the impression you know your Cisco stuff.

Since everything in the world almost is gigabit, why have Cisco even bothered with 10/100 ports in this day and age?

EDIT:- Looks like the 1921 has a fan! :((
 
Same here:-

I cannot understand what the differences are between these two partnumbers

C897VAW-A-K9 Cisco 897 VA Gigabit Ethernet security router with SFP and VDSL/ADSL2+ Annex A with Wireless


C897VAW-E-K9 Cisco 897VA Gigabit Ethernet security router with SFP and VDSL/ADSL2+ Annex A with Wireless






-A or -E, I have no clue what this means.
 
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