I have been looking at this router and also looking at the EdgeRouter LIte.
I think I have decided that I would like to go with the RB750GL because of the additional ports and I believe I would like to segment my network out a little bit, my only concern is the throughput.
Possible Set-up:
Port1 - WAN out to a 100/20 Mbps connection at the moment (This could be upgraded to a 200/50 so definitely don't want to be able to support that)
Port2 - assigned to run my Local LAN with PC's and Backup Servers all connected on a Gigabit Switch
Port3 - assigned and hosting Clients on my Guest Wireless. This will only Route to the Internet will not have connection to anything else.
Port4 - assigned to host a Home Lab with maybe some VM's and other internet accessible machines in it.
Port 5 - unassigned
Not currently planning on using any VLAN's for this as none of the switches I have would support it.
There will be some routing allowed between Port 2 and Port 4, and Possibly Port 3 to 4 and also some Firewall Rules opened up from the Internet to Port 4. Nothing from 4 will be able to get to 3 or 2 though.
My question is can the Router handle this segmentation and the access rules required to maintain it and still support the 1Gbps speeds internally. I know the router won't come into play for any traffic that is on the same subnet, I am mainly concerned about not getting my full internet speed as I add the firewall rules I need and routing information to get between all of this.
Any thought would be appreciated. I looked at the 2001's I just really don't need all those ports. I hope this works out, I think I may have already committed to the RB750GL by putting it on my Christmas list, it may already be in a box under the Christmas tree