Building my Network

diegodgo87 · June 6, 2017, 3:51pm

Hi, my company recently move to a new building and designated me as sysadmin (they have no idea what they did)
There is just one ISP in my town (small town) and they only offer ADSL up to 6mb/s.
My LAN has 210 hosts approx. So I need a router capable of connect 6 ADSL wan and route all those devices. My LAN is under 172.16.0.0 and every device have their IP set, I can route trough groups and set to every group to use one different wan.

Some people recommend me to buy this: https://routerboard.com/RB2011UiAS-RM

I don’t have any experience with this devices, so i’m asking… can that router do the job?

If you have any idea how do I should build my Network I’m open to listen.

cdiedrich · June 7, 2017, 7:56am

This should easily work.
How do you hook up your DSL links? do you have plain modems and want to PPPoE-out from your router or do the modems handle PPPoE and pass out a public IP?
Since all the DSL links seem to come from the same ISP - could your ISP probably support BCP so that you can really aggregate the links?

I think traffic-wise the 2011 would surely suffice - but I see it rather critical interface-wise as well as their grouping, especially when loooking at future growth in either your network or your ISPs DSL capacities. You might like to have a look at either the RB3011 (which is, simply put, a (much) better 2011 - still has two switch groups but has each group with 2x1GBit linked to the CPU which offers more flexibility in assigning interfaces) or at the 1100 series.

-Chris

diegodgo87 · June 7, 2017, 10:16am

cdiedrich:

This should easily work.
How do you hook up your DSL links? do you have plain modems and want to PPPoE-out from your router or do the modems handle PPPoE and pass out a public IP?
Since all the DSL links seem to come from the same ISP - could your ISP probably support BCP so that you can really aggregate the links?

I think traffic-wise the 2011 would surely suffice - but I see it rather critical interface-wise as well as their grouping, especially when loooking at future growth in either your network or your ISPs DSL capacities. You might like to have a look at either the RB3011 (which is, simply put, a (much) better 2011 - still has two switch groups but has each group with 2x1GBit linked to the CPU which offers more flexibility in assigning interfaces) or at the 1100 series.

-Chris

Thanks for the reply Chris, I don’t know what BCP means, but I have the phone lines with their modems, i’m using the phone lines, right now i’m routing with this little beauty http://www.tp-link.com/co/products/details/cat-4910_TL-R470T+.html, with this router I only have to connect the wan’s, no other configuration is needed.