Re: Home CPE choice

[Marty Anstey <marty.anstey () sunwave net>]

> 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 :)
I run FreeBSD on a PIII; I can easily saturate my 15mbit cable
connection without it breaking a sweat. I also have a couple Cisco
2610's, one of which is my ipv6 tunnel endpoint.

-M