Stable Small Biz Router

[tvyankee]

Hello,

Just wondering if any of you have any experience with a small biz router that has a lot of up time and easy to make changes like port forwarding . My friend has a bar/resto and has a Linksys ea 4500 of something like that and everytime you try and login in to the gui you get a spinning circle even when you log in manually .

If any of you have any good suggestions i would love to here them

They have Verizon DSL with a static ip and a 24 port gigabit switch.

POS, DVR, Directv Boxes, and wifi for them and there guest network.

I was thinking something wired only with some good access points .

Thanks in advance

 

[Kris404]

Hello,

Just wondering if any of you have any experience with a small biz router that has a lot of up time and easy to make changes like port forwarding . My friend has a bar/resto and has a Linksys ea 4500 of something like that and everytime you try and login in to the gui you get a spinning circle even when you log in manually .

If any of you have any good suggestions i would love to here them

They have Verizon DSL with a static ip and a 24 port gigabit switch.

POS, DVR, Directv Boxes, and wifi for them and there guest network.

I was thinking something wired only with some good access points .

Thanks in advance

For small biz, I think it's better to do a dedicated router with Access Points at different locations.

Look for Ubiquiti products.

 

[tvyankee]

Thanks for the reply. I understand that I was asking about a model number for a stable with a lot of uptime and easy to navigate.

The rest I got.

Thanks

 

[abailey]

The Ubiquiti products are great and are pro level, not consumer level. I use a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite and a Ubiquiti Unify AP LR. Both are extremely stable but they are not the easiest to configure. For what you want to do, though, you can use the GUI for everything and not have to use the CLI. My router has not been rebooted in about 3 months and my WAP has not been rebooted since I put it in, about 7 months ago.

 

[Cloud200]

Imo if you think you can get the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite to work for you then go for it. It is fast and stable.

TP-Link also has some nice inexpensive hardware. You can demo the interface here;
http://www.tp-link.com/en/support/emulators/?pcid=205

If you are in the mood for a bit of an adventure . . . you can always go for one of the netgate firewalls with PFsense pre-installed.


Whichever way you go for your gateway router I strongly suggest going with the ubiquiti WAPs

 

[fistv]

My first posting, if it is a business I would go with a good quality router and wireless access points. I currently have 3 separate wireless networks installed here at work and not on our internal corporate network.
Two of them use Cisco 891W's, with separate aeronet air-sap-1602's, these are stand alone access points not requiring a controller which is an important point. The 891W has it's own AP built in but it is separate from the core router. I also have the add on internal daughter cards for the first 4 of 8 lan ports, 0-3 to provide POE to the aeronets, I hate wall warts. Both are supplied with wan services from 80/20 cable modems with static IP's, both are secure. My second setup is pretty much the setup you are are looking for, our restaurant/Store has 12 TV's all with direct TV boxes as well as a half dozen sonos boxes. All those are controlled with Ipod touches, the secure part keeps the customers from changing channels and music
The 891 can be configured with a gui which is fairly simple or you can copy a canned config from the cisco site and modify the ip's, telnet in. config t then cut and paste. These routers stay up for months at a time. These will also do a real class A network, base is 10.10.1.x static, wireless are 10.10.11.x and 10.10.12.x, two poe are on one vlan1, two poe on vlan2 both those are dhcp.
The one open one is a linksys wrt54G with DD-WRT for the customers. I have a scheduled reboot on this one every 2 hours, it gets a bit squirrely once 30+ people have connected, had dinner and/or drinks, smoked a few cigars then leave and the leases stay populated in memory. This cleans them out and has virtually eliminated the cannot connect errors the customers complained about. It too is about to get replaced with an 891W.
As for DSL vs Cable, not a dsl fan, with cable you can get static addresses, each cable modem has 5 with a 248 netmask, which means you can hookup a secure network with one static address and a second one with a second static IP. DSL in this area of Easton Pa is a joke and fios does not exist.