Any good Wifi routers with solid VPN endpoint?

[abbyd]

Howdy folks I am looking to make the right call for my SOHO VPN solution. I think I understand the pros and cons of PPTP, QuickVPN, L2TP/IPSec, and SSL.

* small wireless LAN
* security is important
* 2-4 remote devices need full inbound network access
* Windows, iPhone/Droid could be nice
* budget is up to $500

Initially I thought some of the Cisco gear with PPTP endpoint could work, but I think PPTP is too insecure. Cisco's small business line is taking a beating in amazon and newegg reviews. As usual I'm not sure if it's people not RTFMing or if their firmware really is crap? Draytek looks like a viable option, though I hear support is not great. Netgear is out, period. I am a fan of Engenius, but it doesn't look like they have any such gear.

If I can't find a decent router/VPN server, I'll probably just build a lightweight Linux box to host OpenVPN.

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

 

[ogreene]

Fraytek works quite well

Hi,

I have a Draytek 2920n and it was very easy to set up the vpn so would recommend that product. The support forums are active and they have responded to messages when I had questions about another subject.

They also update their firmware and add features

All in all it has been good although I am not using it with lots of connections so cannot comment on that side of things.

It worked well using dyndns.

Cheers

 

[abbyd]

That's great - thanks for the recommendation. DynDNS is a nice feature to have as well, then I don't have to run a client on the LAN side. Also good to hear that support has improved.

I see "VPN hardware co-processor" mentioned in some of the Draytek specs, I'm guessing that would be a chip dedicated to encryption/decryption... Load should be low but that will probably help with throughput.