Recommendations for new routers

[Michael K. Hansen]

Hi All

I am in the lucky situation that I finally will get a good/fast (100 Mbit/s) Internet connection in my summerhouse. Since I have my NAS at home, and I don't want to move back and forth between the two places I am thinking about getting new routers, to replace the standard ones that comes with the Internet connections. 

What I am looking for is a router which has the capability of creating a site-2-site VPN connection, with a reasonable bandwidth to allow streaming of 1080p movies. I don't mind paying for a quality product, but I am not keen on a yearly subscription/maintenance fee.

Please let me know about your experiences, recommendations and ideas.

[sc302 Veteran]

enterprise based devices like sonicwall or cisco.  can be had for a few hundred, the sonicwall is pretty easy to setup.

 

free (just need to provide hardware or space on a vm server) like pfsense, smoothwall, or untangle.

[Michael K. Hansen]

Thanks for the reply sc302.

I am looking for dedicated boxes and specific models, preferably some which people have good experiences with.

[sc302 Veteran]

cisco 5505

sonicwall tz205 tz215 tz105 - features/speed (probably want a 215, I would ebay it or look for refurbished to save you some monies) 

netgear nighthawk (has vpn support, I have not used it as I only need vpn in a business environment).

[+BudMan MVC]

pfsense now has appliance they are selling that is $299  If you wanted dedicated firewall/router this is great option that is for sure.  And has aes-ni for your vpn performance.

https://www.pfsense.org/products/product-family.html#sg-2220

http://store.pfsense.org/SG-2220/

 

 

[remixedcat]

Untangle box or Netgear nighthawk or Cisco meraki Z1.

[binaryzero]

SophosUTM.

[remixedcat]

Nope they are now tied to Cyberoam and they are cheats, liars and litigators.... they wanted to pay me 600 bucks to give one of thier UTMs a 10/10 and I declined so they threatened me with legal crap. Plus one of thier reps that sent me a freind request on FB had an abnormal amount of baby pics on his page. scary amount. Too much shady people at both sophos and cyberoam. DO NOT TRUST.

[SuperKid]

I really enjoy this router for its price and the amount of features it has, it is a good quality piece of equipment,

https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-lite/

[xendrome]

cisco 5505

sonicwall tz205 tz215 tz105 - features/speed (probably want a 215, I would ebay it or look for refurbished to save you some monies) 

netgear nighthawk (has vpn support, I have not used it as I only need vpn in a business environment).

Those Sonicwall models are all EOL or going to be EOL soon. Look at TZ-300,TZ-400,TZ-500

[tonyjr]

Hello,

 

I would recommend MikroTik CCR-1009, the passively cooled version. I am using them for a similar situation, the software is very easy to use with many examples of site to site VPN configurations on the wiki. The hardware and software is designed for ISPs primarily but also works great for residential use.

 

 

Overkill, yes. Cheap yes.

TonyJr