What is a good ADSL router for 60+ computers

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As far as I know there's no 60 port modem + router, so what you really need is a good 1-4 port Gigabit ADSL2+ modem router, and then a/some gigabit switches to make for the 60 ports.

If you need the 60 computer to connect through Wi-Fi then it's easier, and I'm sure someone better than me will recommend a good model for that task.

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As far as I know there's no 60 port modem + router, so what you really need is a good 1-4 port Gigabit ADSL2+ modem router, and then a/some gigabit switches to make for the 60 ports.

If you need the 60 computer to connect through Wi-Fi then it's easier, and I'm sure someone better than me will recommend a good model for that task.

Thanks for the reply, and to the others I should have expalined better.

I'm aware that there aren't 60 port modem, I have cisco switches that can be upgraded to fibre.

We have several rooms that are conected to 1 server (which by the way there are several servers), we are currently using a cheap adsl d-link router.

I am fully aware that 60 computers sharing a adsl link will be slow, but none the less, I am after a a better quality router that will handle anything upto 60 computers web surfing at the same time. I suspect the cheap d-link will crap itself as soon as 15 people connect to web.

We are stuck with adsl so please no comments "dude - upgrade!!!!" this at the moment isn't an option.

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Ask your project leader.

What a helpful fellow you are :whistle: Why did you waste your time in replying at all?

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I would recommend to put some cheap modem and to configure it as a bridge. Behind that you can put some decent router and configure PPPoE to make connection for all users. Once when you get rid of ADSL you still have good router and you can throw ADSL modem to junk.

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I would recommend to put some cheap modem and to configure it as a bridge. Behind that you can put some decent router and configure PPPoE to make connection for all users. Once when you get rid of ADSL you still have good router and you can throw ADSL modem to junk.

Thanks for the reply, actually I am doing that at the moment and using an SME linux server as a proxy/firewall server.

My problem is that I don't think that the cheap d-link router even in bridge mode can handle dozens of connections from 20 or more computers at once?

Or is it my sme proxy server is taking all the web hits?

Does it even matter what router I use?

My thinking is it must matter, why wouldn't corporations just use cheap $40 d-link modems and put them in bridge mode and have a linux box do all the work. I suspect the adsl modem itself mustn't be able to handle dozens and dozens of web hits? Is this right?

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You could look at some of the Cisco 800 series routers, there are ones with 802.11n, firewall features, ADSL modem, QoS features etc. They will cost you more than a consumer type router but are going to be more scalable. Not sure too many consumer routers will have been tested with 60 PC's connected up to them. There could be issues with the number of NAT translations you've got going on with that number of people using it at the same time.

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What a helpful fellow you are :whistle: Why did you waste your time in replying at all?

Didn't mean to be like that. LOL

But really, unless it's some sort of a corporate deployment or a college assignment, who else would ask that question. ;)

You can connect as many devices as you like wirelessly, perhaps with a Next-Gen Wireless-N router. But I can't imagine DSL providing enough bandwidth for 60 computers.

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