Hello Forum,
Getting straight to the point:
I’m thinking about getting a routerboard to replace a pfSense box to do the routing, firewalling, QoS, etc in our backpacker hostels.
I wonder if the two options I currently have (RB2011UiAS-RM or RB3011UiAS-RM) will do the job and which would be the better option?
Here is my setup & my requirements:
As we are located in South America (Bolivia & Peru) bandwidth is still pretty low around here, best I can currently get are 5Mbit/s/1Mbit/s ADSL lines, so I currently have 4 ADSL lines with those characteristics on the WAN side.
On the LAN side I have 3 LANs: the internal Office Lan, an internet cafe style LAN for 6 client PCs and an open WiFi (with 8 ddWRT APs and some 200 clients) for guests.
If RouterOS would let me, I would like to achieve the following:
- MultiWAN LoadBalance the 4 ADSL lines and keep a minimum bandwidth for the Office LAN.
- Use RouterOS as a DHCP server for all three LANs (different subnets).
- Firewall between WAN and LAN and between LANs
- Shape traffic on all LANs but mainly on the free WiFi - I have full control over the internet cafe, and sometimes we do need to download some torrent on the office LAN, but on the WiFi I would like to lower that traffic to the point of blocking it (which I know is next to impossible)
- At some point I would like to VPN into the Office LAN from the outside.
I’m already getting all this - to some point - from my pfSense Box, but the hardware might fail any day soon, so it needs to be replaced and around here I can only get energy efficient hardware from MikroTik…
Can I do all this with RouterOS and either the RB2011 or the RB3011 ?