Looking for some guidance on appropriate router model(s) for a site. I would categorize this site as an “advanced” home network, maybe something on the order of a home lab in terms of complexity.
Looking for the least or less expensive options.
Wireless is not really needed. If it’s included at same price or lower, fine but it’s not something I would pay extra for as there is already WiFi APs.
Currently the site runs on a 750GL and it does generally fine. Only issue compelling upgrade is it maxes out at around 180 Mbps on the WAN port and this site currently has 300. Might be looking for an upgrade to 500 Mbps soon or even Gigabit (symmetrical) so depending on price I would consider models for each throughput.
Based on the above, what would be your suggestions for something similar in “power” to a 750GL but with 300, 500 and 1000 Mbps WAN capable?
Yes if knowing 1gig is a possibility the RB5009 is best bang for the buck at the moment. The RB4011 is not bad either and a little less but getting old in the tooth.
5009 is a bit questionable for me as none of the other devices are on v7 yet.
This site has some vpn connections to 1 or 2 other sites (home office, remote assistant) which will also be like 750GL or similar, running ROS v6.
Will v7 be easily backward compatible with these? Is v7 have all of the “I’m new!” bugs worked out yet?
Oh and gigabit is only maybe possibility. Is there a more economical choice?
thanks.
edit - and oddly enough 5009 doesn’t seem available at any of the usual distributors. Baltic shows them for pre-order only.
And 4011 stock doesn’t seem plentiful either right now?
Are we exactly in the middle of cutting over from one model to the other?
v7 will probably be backward compatible with anything v6 offers … some day. Currently v7 is missing some features and has quite a few bugs. So it’s definitely not ready for prime-time. If stability is important to you, then your choices should be with v6 devices.
As you already mentioned, RB4011 is almost as good as RB509 and comparable price. Then there are a few IPQ-401x based devices, such as hAP ac2, hAP ac3, wAP ac, … these are all capable of routing at nearly 1Gbps (perhaps around 800-900Mbps, depending on exact configuration).
I don’t think any of models mentioned are going to be retired any time soon … I guess we see effects of global chip shortage here.
Thank you for being up front about this. My worst case scenario would be getting into a mixed version environment and vpn tunnels don’t work or other flaky stuff happens.
I’ve been around MT long enough (thankfully) to know that with anything new, go real slow and I’m glad someone backed up that idea for me.
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Oh and gigabit is only maybe possibility. Is there a more economical choice?
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As you already mentioned, RB4011 is almost as good as RB509 and comparable price. Then there are a few IPQ-401x based devices, such as hAP ac2, hAP ac3, wAP ac, … these are all capable of routing at nearly 1Gbps (perhaps around 800-900Mbps, depending on exact configuration).
I don’t think any of models mentioned are going to be retired any time soon … I guess we see effects of global chip shortage here.
Oddly enough even 4011 stock seems pretty absent right now. idk why. 3011 is avail tho lol.
I think for this site I will look at the ARM IPQ devices you mentioned. Doing rough calcs from the 950GL load to what they actually get (percentage wise) guesstimates me that a hAP ac2 should be good for about 400+ Mbps with their “same” configs (they currently get around 20-25% of what the “test results” theoretical showed for 950GL so 20% of hAP ac2…)
Plenty fine for a 300 connection and probably “close enough” for a 500 if they choose that.
I’ll keep an eye on this thread for a little while in case anyone has anything else to add. Will probably pull trigger on purch in the next 14 days.
Hey, thanks for checking. Actually Hex-S stock is ok. It’s rb4011 (and 5009) that are curiously missing.
Also the IPQ devices like hAP ac2, I think stock is good too.
Btw I check into Hex-S. Performance seems a bit down from the ARM processors so I think hap is possibly my way to go.
