cant seem to find a good router..

[redbeard916]

i need a good wired router suggestion for a 1.5gig internet connection( multiple 2.5gig ports) . I'm not really interested in asus,netgear,tplink or anything of that nature. id like ubiquiti, but they seem to be limited on 2.5gig ethernet ports and the one device i found runs extremely hot and caps at 1.5gig MAX on a good day.. is there any good easy to setup with a web interface routers out there that will suit my needs.

 

[tgl]

Maybe something running pfSense or OPNsense?

You can bring your own mini-PC-type hardware, or if you're not into figuring out exactly what will work, I'd recommend one of Netgate's pfSense "appliance" boxes. I bought their 4200 a few months ago and have been quite pleased.

 

[redbeard916]

That's an option if it's easy to setup. Home based residential routers are just so easy but feel like they lack in power and speed.. Asus still the number 1 home router ??

 

[tgl]

That's an option if it's easy to setup.

Well, easy is in the eye of the beholder maybe. Netgate's documentation is quite complete, and for my taste miles ahead of the docs from Asus, Ubiquiti, or anything else I've worked with in this space. But it might be a bit of a shock if you've never set up individual firewall rules before. (OTOH, if you aren't trying to provide network servers the defaults are likely just fine.)

 

[Tech9]

Firewalla Gold Pro?

Firewalla Gold Pro: 10G Cyber Security Firewall & Router Protecting Your Family and Business

Powered by The Firewalla Security Stack Deep Insight helps you see the network at up to 10+ Gigabits per second with 2x 10Gbit Interfaces and 2x 2.5Gbit interfaces. Control your network with intrusion prevention (IPS) and network segmentation, adding virtual walls around your connected devices...

firewalla.com

 

[Digilog]

i need a good wired router suggestion for a 1.5gig internet connection( multiple 2.5gig ports) . I'm not really interested in asus,netgear,tplink or anything of that nature. id like ubiquiti, but they seem to be limited on 2.5gig ethernet ports and the one device i found runs extremely hot and caps at 1.5gig MAX on a good day.. is there any good easy to setup with a web interface routers out there that will suit my needs.

Just to clarify, there isn't a way to get more than what was provisioned (1.5Gb to the internet) but computer to computer communications in your network will be 2.5Gb.

 

[redbeard916]

Firewalla Gold Pro?

Firewalla Gold Pro: 10G Cyber Security Firewall & Router Protecting Your Family and Business

Powered by The Firewalla Security Stack Deep Insight helps you see the network at up to 10+ Gigabits per second with 2x 10Gbit Interfaces and 2x 2.5Gbit interfaces. Control your network with intrusion prevention (IPS) and network segmentation, adding virtual walls around your connected devices...

firewalla.com

massively overkill lol.

 

[Tech9]

id like ubiquiti, but they seem to be limited on 2.5gig ethernet ports and the one device i found runs extremely hot and caps at 1.5gig MAX on a good day.

This specific one disappears the moment it shows in stock, very popular. Up to 1.5Gbps WAN-LAN with IDS/IPS enabled, full 2.5GbE without it and on LAN-LAN switching. For $200 there is hardly anything better. The software is excellent end easy enough even for beginners. The online documentation and built-in help are good enough. If concerned about the operating temperature - place it on a laptop cooling pad or something similar. If you need more than a flat home network - get VLAN capable switches and APs. The same for Firewalla above or other OPNsense/pfSense appliances.

 

[RMinNJ]

Which ubiquiti is being discussed here?

 

[Tech9]

Which ubiquiti is being discussed here?

Cloud Gateway Max

Cloud Gateway Max NS - Ubiquiti Store

Compact 2.5G Cloud Gateway with 30+ UniFi device / 300+ client support, 1.5 Gbps IPS routing, and selectable NVR storage.

store.ui.com

 

[coxhaus]

Firewalla Gold Pro?

Firewalla Gold Pro: 10G Cyber Security Firewall & Router Protecting Your Family and Business

Powered by The Firewalla Security Stack Deep Insight helps you see the network at up to 10+ Gigabits per second with 2x 10Gbit Interfaces and 2x 2.5Gbit interfaces. Control your network with intrusion prevention (IPS) and network segmentation, adding virtual walls around your connected devices...

firewalla.com

I looked at Firewalla Gold back when it first came out. My issue is it is not scalable as it has no layer 3 support. So, it will not work with my Cisco layer 3 switch using layer 3 routing.

To me Firewalla looks better than a consumer router as it implies it has stateful packet inspection better than any consumer router. I have not tested it nor looked at it hard after figuring out it would not work for me. It seems easy enough to use.

And to be fair, now that they support 10gig I could run my network all layer 2.

 

[coxhaus]

It looks like the Firewalla does not actually support 10g, only has 10g ports.

 

[sfx2000]

I looked at Firewalla Gold back when it first came out. My issue is it is not scalable as it has no layer 3 support. So, it will not work with my Cisco layer 3 switch using layer 3 routing.

Probably not an issue for most Home and Small Business networks...

 

[sfx2000]

It looks like the Firewalla does not actually support 10g, only has 10g ports.

Yeah - this is another thing - 10g PHY is one thing - routing over SW is another - fastpath over netfilter helps, but SW NAT is always going to go back to clock speeds on the CPU...

 

[Digilog]

Yeah - this is another thing - 10g PHY is one thing - routing over SW is another - fastpath over netfilter helps, but SW NAT is always going to go back to clock speeds on the CPU...

I noticed a long time ago running a server gets me faster internet even on what they call a slow connection. Depending on the network traffic, there seems to be little to no benefit of higher bandwidth. Before my modem started internally getting messages from the cable system of an outdated cable modem, the system ran with 5-10ms of latency, now its about 5ms more but I will return to lower pings once I have the new cable modem installed.

 

[Rainmaker]

Alta Labs Route10? Dual SPF+ 10Gb ports ('hardware accelerated'), 4x 2.5Gb copper ports with PoE at, webUI and optional self-hosted controller, 25Gbps combined throughput, full 10Gb IDS/IPS with DPI. The company is new and actively developing, and was founded by some guys who left Ubiquiti. The look and feel is similar, and at <$200 it's a strong value proposition.

 

[Digilog]

Alta Labs Route10? Dual SPF+ 10Gb ports ('hardware accelerated'), 4x 2.5Gb copper ports with PoE at, webUI and optional self-hosted controller, 25Gbps combined throughput, full 10Gb IDS/IPS with DPI. The company is new and actively developing, and was founded by some guys who left Ubiquiti. The look and feel is similar, and at <$200 it's a strong value proposition.

I guess it could be fine if you are going to run a 2.5G network But I refuse to have the router have a phone app of any kind. But this one and the banana pi should be tested against each other since this qualcomm's chip is similar to microtech's chip in the banana pi wifi7 router board. For someone looking for off the shelf plug and go, Its probably ok. Alot of these routers now these days have a lot of features few are going to use, but its the hardware underneath that is more important.

If I was going for a modern solution. I would look for an Intel Atom C3708 based system. Bu the reason behind this is the built in networking interfaces that will have lower latency compared to ones that run interfaces off the PCIe bus. with four 10Gb interfaces bult in, it can be programmed so 1 is WAN and three are separate firewall zones and plenty of expansion if I need to add 10Gb to 100Gb interfaces to it to trunk the firewall zones if needed.

I really don't understand the usage of 2.5Gb outside of connecting to the fastest way on a cable modem. In a network, if a 1Gb connection is the bottleneck, then the next step up is 10G. Because 2.5G isn't that much of a significant change from 1Gb.

 

[Tech9]

full 10Gb IDS/IPS with DPI

There is no way this thing can do true IDS/IPS at 10Gbps on ARM 2.2GHz quad-core CPU. There is some trickery and marketing going on unless there is a new breakthrough technology from Qualcomm. IPQ5322 used in UCG-Ultra/Max can do 1.5Gbps with Suricata multi-core.

 

[Maddog_007]

i need a good wired router suggestion for a 1.5gig internet connection( multiple 2.5gig ports) . I'm not really interested in asus,netgear,tplink or anything of that nature. id like ubiquiti, but they seem to be limited on 2.5gig ethernet ports and the one device i found runs extremely hot and caps at 1.5gig MAX on a good day.. is there any good easy to setup with a web interface routers out there that will suit my needs.

I purchased a decent router from GL-iNET the Flint2 which might interest you.