Need a recommendation for a router

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raithza

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Hi!

We run a small/medium business from home, with lots of users sharing a single internet connection, which sometimes causes some congestion issues with some users downloading a lot. I believe that this could be solved by properly setting up QOS on our router, but our current model (D-Link DSL-2750U) has notoriously user unfriendly QoS setup that apparently not even D-Link's own support is able to advise on, according to some posts on D-Link's forums.

So basically we're thinking of upgrading our router/modem, after doing some googling I'm really not sure which models I should be considering.

Our requirements:
- We have a MWeb 10mpbs uncapped/unshaped account
- We have quite a few devices (10-30)
- Wifi
- I'd love QoS setup that would allow me to set a max up/down per client or at least protocol (to limit torrent speeds)
 
DrJohnZ is a pastor of the pfsense evangelical church..... Don't listen to him :p
 
Rickster said:
This one
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You'll want to kick yourself when you buy that one, instead of
TP-Link Archer D7 AC1750

I'm not sure how good its QoS capabilties are, but from the manual it looks a lot better than the pretty much non-existent QoS of that D-Link router.

If the QoS of this one isn't sufficient, then consider running SmoothWall/pfSense or MikroTik RouterOS.
MikroTik RouterOS isn't the easiest to setup, but it can work very well - I'm using it at my office, home and church :)
 
ponder said:
pfSense is a lot easier to configure than a Mikrotik and very easy to extend with other apps like Squid etc.
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And ponder is his sidekick.

Edit : Costwise, which makes sense though?
 
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Thanks for the recommendations guys.

While I'm not exactly frothing at the mouth at the prospect of being able to program my router, Mikrotik/RouterOS does seem very powerful and flexible and like it would more than meet my needs. I'll investigate the other options as well!
 
imranpanji said:
And ponder is his sidekick.

Edit : Costwise, which makes sense though?
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A simple routerboard will be cheaper. Cost is not everything though, for joe average pfsense will be much easier to get the hang of. And no I'm not a gui point & click nut as i've used cisco ios since the days of ags/cgs/mgs routers & happy with the linux cli as well but it's not for everybody & I realise the majority of people out there would be more comfortable with a gui interface to do things than typing out strings of text they don't comprehend.
 
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