> I have a 30/20 Mbit internet connection. > I want to buy a new router, because the old one: DL-604 is no longer > supported. > What router should I buy, that can handle a 30/20 connection? > No wifi, only ethernet. > Are there cheap routers that supports VLANs and can handle this speed > [uploading and downloading at the same time]?
I have recently started using an old wrtsl54gs (using OpenWRT), configured as a typical "home router" (e.g. it uses NAT) except the upstream is a 100Mb/s link. When connected directly, I used to see up to 9MB/s effective download bandwidths, and now I see them only go as far up as 5MB/s. So, 50Mb/s is probably the limit for such a small machine, but it seems sufficient for your needs. Those little boxes have a 266MHz MIPS CPU and 32M of RAM (http://wiki.openwrt.org/oldwiki/openwrtdocs/hardware/linksys/wrtsl54gs). They support VLANs as well. I'd expect newer home routers to handle that kind of traffic as well, tho there's been a tendency to reduce the specs (to cut costs, presumably), especially on the RAM and flash fronts, less so on the CPU side. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org