[124446] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Home CPE choice
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Carrozzo)
Wed Mar 31 19:03:39 2010
In-Reply-To: <4BB3D2FF.7030608@knownelement.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:03:08 -0400
From: Jack Carrozzo <jack@crepinc.com>
To: Charles N Wyble <charles@knownelement.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Given a marked lack of $significant funding for home routing, I rock
BSD boxen all over. At one point we had several doing OSPF in my
apartment (because we could) but I moved and am now behind a single
Sun Netra ($30) with BSD, natd, and iptables. Works beautifully.
If you're only interested in real routing hardware, I'd probably go
with the low-end cisco SOHO stuff, or if you still have a 2600 sitting
around and only roll DSL, that will work nicely.
-Jack Carrozzo
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Charles N Wyble
<charles@knownelement.com> wrote:
>
> Hopefully this e-mail is considered operational content :)
>
>
> The recent thread on the new linkys kit and ipv6 support got me thinking
> about CPE choice.
>
> What good off the shelf solutions are out there? Should one buy the high =
end
> d-link/linksys/netgear products? I've had bad experiences with those
> (netgear in particular).
>
> Should one get a "real" cisco router? The 877 or something? Maybe an ASA =
or
> the new small business targeted ISR (can't recall the model number off ha=
nd
> right now). There is mikrotik but I'm not so sure about the operating
> system.
>
> Is there a market for a new breed of CPE running OpenWRT or pfsense on
> hardware with enough CPU/RAM to not fall over?
>
> Granted that won't cost $79.00 at best buy. However it seems to me that
> decent CPE is going to run a couple hundred dollars in order to have
> sufficient ram/cpu.
>
> My current home router is a cisco 1841. I keep my 6mbps DSL line pretty m=
uch
> saturated all the time. Often times my wife will be watching Hulu in the
> living room, I'll be streaming music and running torrents (granted I have
> tuned my Azures client fairly well) all at the same time and it's a good
> experience. =A0Running that kind of traffic load through my linksys would
> cause it to need a reboot once or more a day.
>
> What are folks here running in SOHO environments that doesn't require too
> frequent oil changes :)
>
>
>
