Router Selection: Sophisticated Load Balancing, Captive Portal and more
Replacing a high-end router that is just not working for us.We are a B&B and Event Center (think of us as a small hotel). I have attached a spreadsheet we are providing to vendors giving the...
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Look at Mikrotik routers. Very affordable and very configurable. You can set up some queues using pcq to achieve your bandwidth goals, and can also have traffic overflow to the Verizon circuits.Their...
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Joshua, Thanks for the reply. I took a look at Microtik and called one of their distributors. It seems that you essentially have to program the equipment using the RouterOS commands. This seems...
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There is a fairly intuitive GUI called Winbox that is used to manage these, and they a web GUI, too. You can use the CLI as well, but the GUI gets it done too. It is definitely not as simple as...
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Joshua, Thanks so much for your replies! I've spiced you up! I am going to take a look at the Netgear. I am also in the process of reviewing: Untangle, Smoothwall, Solutions from Sophos, Open Mesh,...
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Adding SonicWall to the list of products we are reviewing...
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Putting Easy Tomato lower on the list, but not quite ruling it out. It only runs on a particular ASUS router which only has one WAN link. This means it cannot (and does not) do WAN load balancing....
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Sonicwall is decent. Untangle is very popular, especially in the Spiceworks and small business community. I've never used the other products personally. I'm assuming the carrier is giving you an...
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Joshua ...yes, we are getting an Ethernet handoff from the T-1 Bonding device. I've also just added ClearOS to our list of products we are reviewing...looks promising. Man, this search is...
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Quick overview of Untangle: ** Supports: QoS for VOIP, Bandwidth management (we have looked at the details yet), blocking sites that are bandwidth hogs (application control), rich firewall features...
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I have also ruled out Zentyal (formerly e-box). They have no U.S. partners, no U.S. phone numbers (not even for sales) and their prices are in Euros. They are clearly not focusing on the U.S. market.
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Added Endian to the vendor list....they don't do the sophisticated WAN load balancing, but may have most of the other requirements.
View ArticleRouter Selection: Sophisticated Load Balancing, Captive Portal and more
Update on the Elfiq...I apparently did not filter this one very well...their focus is totally on bandwidth management. They do not have basic router functions (such as DHCP) nor firewall functions....
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Adding Nomadix to our list of vendors ....
View ArticleRouter Selection: Sophisticated Load Balancing, Captive Portal and more
how about this?http:/ Opens a new window/www.dlink.com/us/en/business-solutions/security/utm-firewalls/dfl-1660-netdefend-utm-firewall-sme http:/ Opens a new window/www.cyberoam.com/NGSeries
View ArticleRouter Selection: Sophisticated Load Balancing, Captive Portal and more
JoJo, Thanks. I will take a look. --Norman
View ArticleRouter Selection: Sophisticated Load Balancing, Captive Portal and more
Summary Feedback for ClearOS and Clear Pro's: a) Handles DHCP and Subnet requirements with different LAN's: External (Wan/ISP), LAN (Trusted), Hot LAN (mix between DMZ and LAN, supplying NAT but not...
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