> > Hopefully this e-mail is considered operational content :) > > > The recent thread on the new linkys kit and ipv6 support got me > thinking about CPE choice. > > What good off the shelf solutions are out there? Should one buy the > high end d-link/linksys/netgear products? I've had bad experiences > with those (netgear in particular). > > Should one get a "real" cisco router? The 877 or something? Maybe an > ASA or the new small business targeted ISR (can't recall the model > number off hand right now). There is mikrotik but I'm not so sure > about the operating system. > > Is there a market for a new breed of CPE running OpenWRT or pfsense on > hardware with enough CPU/RAM to not fall over? > > Granted that won't cost $79.00 at best buy. However it seems to me > that decent CPE is going to run a couple hundred dollars in order to > have sufficient ram/cpu. > > My current home router is a cisco 1841. I keep my 6mbps DSL line > pretty much saturated all the time. Often times my wife will be > watching Hulu in the living room, I'll be streaming music and running > torrents (granted I have tuned my Azures client fairly well) all at > the same time and it's a good experience. Running that kind of > traffic load through my linksys would cause it to need a reboot once > or more a day. > > What are folks here running in SOHO environments that doesn't require > too frequent oil changes :) > > I run FreeBSD on a PIII; I can easily saturate my 15mbit cable connection without it breaking a sweat. I also have a couple Cisco 2610's, one of which is my ipv6 tunnel endpoint.
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