Re: Home CPE choice

[Jack Carrozzo <jack () crepinc com>]

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 hand
> 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 much
> 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.  Running 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 :)