Aye, to be honest it's getting on for 7 years old now so a bit overdue a replacement. I'm just so busy renewing everyone else's network hardware that I don't get a chance to do my own...

I think I'll be going for the 2860 next. At the moment the BT modem is in the living room, and the router is in the loft with the network switch & there's CAT5 running between the two points. If I go for the 2860, I can choose between putting the router in the living room & getting rid of the BT modem, or putting the router in the loft and still using the WAN port.

RobC.

In reply to a post by carrobesit:

Aye, to be honest it's getting on for 7 years old now so a bit overdue a replacement. I'm just so busy renewing everyone else's network hardware that I don't get a chance to do my own...

I think I'll be going for the 2860 next. At the moment the BT modem is in the living room, and the router is in the loft with the network switch & there's CAT5 running between the two points. If I go for the 2860, I can choose between putting the router in the living room & getting rid of the BT modem, or putting the router in the loft and still using the WAN port.

If its a Huawei HG612 modem then I would unlock it, link LAN2 to an internal switch port, and keep it as the modem, as you can then monitor the stats with various tools or scripts. Mine has been very stable.

I went for an ASUS (first N66U, now an AC68U) and it has 90% of the features of the Draytek (no IPsec VPN server) that I used, but for a significantly less sum. Plus they're both dual band WiFi which Draytek are still missing.

Unfortunately, it looks like an ECI modem so I don't think I'll be able to unlock it.

As far as the routers, the IPSec VPN is actually a feature I use to connect in to my customers networks so I need to stick with the Drayteks. Plus I am a big fan of them. And as far as dual-band, there are dual band versions of each Draytek model available now.

RobC.

In reply to a post by carrobesit:

Unfortunately, it looks like an ECI modem so I don't think I'll be able to unlock it.

Shame, could be worth getting one from ebay then when the price is right.

As far as the routers, the IPSec VPN is actually a feature I use to connect in to my customers networks so I need to stick with the Drayteks. Plus I am a big fan of them. And as far as dual-band, there are dual band versions of each Draytek model available now.

That makes sense. The Asus models have OpenVPN and PPTP but not IPSec. I suspect one of the third party firmwares might introduce it and then Asus might include it. Suspect not much demand

When I last looked they were all switchable dual band, not simultaneous, which is pretty irritating - but the pretty new 2860n-Plus model is finally simultaneous. Wow !