Cable router selection
 

Hi all,


My current broadband contract shall expire in coming April. The new ISP, providing fibre optic broadband connection, whom I'm now contacting shall not provide router. I'm now searching for a reliable cable router with 4 ports. On Googling I found many manufacturers. Could you please shed me some light how to make my selection? Suggestion of maker would also be appreciated. TIA

Rgds
satimis

What are you currently using for a router?

Hi,

The router is provided by current ISP.

This will be the first time for me using FTTC (Fibre to the Cabinet) Fibre Optic Broadband service. I don't have previous experience. After making some search I found follows;

1) Network connection as shown on the file attached.
2) There is cable modem router combo which is a combined modem and router
3) Spec of Gigabit router will includeKindly shed me some light. Thanks

Furthermore actually I only have 2 PCs, each running Oracle VirtualBox with about 10 desktop/server VMs created on each of them. Not all VMs are running at the same time. I wonder whether I can use a NIC instead? My websites are hosted on Godaddy server, shared hosting. I use the local servers for testing as well as mirror of the websites. What I'm prepared to do is setting up the mirrors when they are running users will browse the local websites. If the local server is off users will browse the websites on Godaddy server.

Rgds
satimis

Your ISP should provide you with the Cable modem. You already know the spec of the cable router you want so should be able to find one easily I would think. Some manufacturers are NetGear, D-Link, Belkin. I'm not sure of your printer scanner ports, are they networked or something else?
I'd suggest getting a router which includes WiFi as well which is probably the norm these days. 1 Wan port and 4 Lan ports are also standard.

Play Bonny!

:hattip:

Thanks for your advice. I have to ask them. They didn't mention on their plan offered.

Thanks.

They are not essential to me. I just find them on searching. I only print or scan in very rare occasion.

What will be the use of WiFi to me? My PCs (only 2) are on the same table.

On the offer proposed by the new ISP
I wonder what will be its use? On my IPhone I'm subscribing 3G plan.

My PCs (only 2) are on the same table.

It'll be sufficient to me.

Rgds
satimis

As for router specifications, I would suggest:
1. WiFi plus four LAN ports.
2. Is Gigabyte compatible. I assume that all routers are now.
3. Has attached USB ports.

Concerning the WiFi, it can be turned-off. Though my home computers are connected to the router by cable, the WiFi has proven to be very useful. For my Nexus 7 and when we have visitors who bring their various electronic devices (laptops, phones, and android devices).

Concerning attached USB ports, I am using the router's USB ports for network storage/back-up.
According to the manufacturer of my router, it can be used as an FTP server, but I have not yet used that feature.
Additionally, some routers now have USB 3.0 ports.

If I were to buy a router, I would buy one that works with dd-wrt or open wrt so I don't have to worry about backdoors in the firmware.

Hi all,

Thanks for your advice.

My new ISP shall provide FTTH(fibre to the home) Fibre Optic Broadband service.
Bandwidth (Downstream and Upstream): 100Mbps / 100Mbps with 3 FREE wifi accounts

They don't use cable modem, but ONT(Optical-fibre Network Terminal) for connecting client’ router/PC. ONT will be provided by ISP.

I'm now searching for a basic 1 Wan and 4-port Gigabit Router with browser-based configuration. I don't need wireless because 2 PCs are in the same room/table, neither wifi. I have no idea how to use the FREE wifi accounts in the package. I'm subscribing 4G plan on my IPhone.

Each PC is running virtualization with about 10 VMs running on each of them. The gigabit(high) speed is solely for internal traffic. Actually 100M speed will be sufficient for my use. It is very rare transferring sizable files between PCs. I don't have external storage because one PC with 3TB storage and another with 2TB storage which are sufficient for my use.

On searching it seems not many choice for me. I found;

Linksys 4Port GIGASecurity Gigabit Router w/VPN
and
Linksys RVS4000 4ports Gigabit VPN Router
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/product...vpn/index.html

(Is Linksys acquired by cisco ?)

Please shed me some light with suggestion. TIA


Hi metaschima,

What will be the use of dd-wrt or open wrt? Thanks

Rgds
satimis

Well, the firmware provided by the router manufacturer isn't exactly secure in many cases:
http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/02/1...e-belong-to-us
http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/01/0...linkys-routers
http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/12/0...-older-routers
http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/10/1...ss-to-settings

There are plenty more if you search.

If I buy a router, it will be on the supported list of dd-wrt or openwrt. If there is a bug, I or someone else can fix it quickly.

Where do you store the data which needs to be backed-up? Backing-up to the another directory on the same drive is better than nothing. It would still be better, should a drive fail, to have backup your data to a different hard drive. Since you have two computers, you can (at least) backup to the other computer. Considering how cheap drives are, I bought a a 3Tb USB hard drive and connected it to the modem USB port for that (backup) purpose.

Hi,

Thanks for your advice.

DD-WRT is a Linux-based firmware for wireless routers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DD-WRT

I'm looking for cable/wire Gigabit router therefore I have to search for the Gigabit router which supports openwrt. If I'm wrong please correct me.

satimis

The setup is as follows;
Computer-1
SSD-120G for running OS
2TB HD for working as well as storing the working data on data-partition
1TB HD for storing data copied on data-partition

Computer-2
SSD-120G for running OS
1.5TB HD for working as well as storing the working data on data-partition
1TB HD for storing data copied on data-partition

Data are shared between computers

satimis

Or ddwrt. That's just a recommendation. Another article:
http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/02/1...-home-networks

Thanks

My new ISP shall provide "FTTH(fibre to the home) Fibre Optic Broadband service" with bandwidth (Downstream and Upstream): 100Mbps/100Mbps. They don't use cable modem but ONT(Optical-fibre Network Terminal) which will be provided for connecting my router/PC.

I never used ONT(Optical-fibre Network Terminal) before neither I know what is this device?

I'm now looking for a standard Gigabit cable-router with 1 WAN and 4-ports to match that device. I know a 100M cable-modem can be used but I expect having higher speed on local net work.

In the worst case if without a suitable router available at time of installation can my PC be directly connected to the ONT abovementioned?

PC Motherboard - ASUSTeK M5A97 R2.0
1 x Gigabit LAN Controller
1 x LAN (RJ45) port

Can you help and/or make some suggestion? TIA

Edit:
I'm now aware that cable Gigabit router is phasing out replaced with wireless/cable router. The change getting openwrt on Gigabit cable router is almost remote.

I found following Gigabit wireless/cable routers;
Asus RT-N66U
Dual-Band Wireless-N900 Gigabit Router
http://www.asus.com/Networking/RTN66U/

Netgear N600
http://www.netgear.com/search.aspx?q=n600
NetGear N600 Wireless Dual Band Router WNDR3400 specs
http://reviews.cnet.com/routers/netg...-34169558.html

RT-AC66U
http://www.asus.com/Networking/RTAC66U/

any comment? Thanks


Rgds
satimis

Here's a question, they are not providing a router, but are they providing a modem ?