Router for 2.3gig internet

I am changing from VM to Yayzi in a few months time and I am looking for a router.

99% of the routers I can find only have 1x 2.5gb wan port making it useless to use the full 2.3gig internet connection on my PC.

I did find this from asus
ASUS ROG Rapture GT-AX6000

and it does have 2x 2.5gb ports but does anyone have any other suggestions?

Have a look at the Ubiquiti UDM-Pro or UDM-SE - bith have a 10Gb WAN port and with IDS & DPI running they should give 3.5Gbps.

https://evanmccann.net/blog/unifi-routers-overview is an overview.

You would need to use the second SFP at 10Gb or the single 2.5Gb RJ45 (on the SE) for your PC.

The GL-MT6000 seems to be reviewed favourably

I just setup a dream machine SE as I'm on you fibre 2gb/2gb. I'm very happy with it. I'm using one of the 10gb sfp+ ports with a sfp+ to rj45 module connected to my 10gb switch for my lan side.All worked out the box.

Edited by choppersrock (Fri 29-Mar-24 19:00:24)

Draytek Vigor 2962 or the more expensive 3912. You would need to supply your own Wifi kit and 10G switches to go along with these non Wifi routers.

I would agree with that

The 2962 is a brilliant router, not cheap, but well worth the money

As long as your happy with 1Gb ports out, then its excellent

Have a look at Mikrotik RB5009. It gives you a 2.5G port for WAN plus a 10G SFP+ port, and 7 more 1G ports. If you want additional 2.5G/10G LAN ports then you could add a switch with 10G uplink.

It has no built-in wireless, but there is a model which adds PoE so you could power external APs.

RB5009UG+S+IN (base)
RB5009UPr+S+IN (PoE on all ports)

I have the RB4011 which is effectively the precursor to this (no 2.5G port, single PoE out port). There is also a version of that available with wireless.

In reply to a post by Adduxi:

Draytek Vigor 2962 or the more expensive 3912. You would need to supply your own Wifi kit and 10G switches to go along with these non Wifi routers.

OP's requirement was specifically at least 2 x 2.5G ports, so the 2962 fails.

The 3912 meets that requirement but is madly expensive.

In reply to a post by Seansmit17:

I am changing from VM to Yayzi in a few months time and I am looking for a router.

99% of the routers I can find only have 1x 2.5gb wan port making it useless to use the full 2.3gig internet connection on my PC.

I did find this from asus
ASUS ROG Rapture GT-AX6000

and it does have 2x 2.5gb ports but does anyone have any other suggestions?

Feed the 2.5Gb into a 2.5Gb switch.
The prices are falling, slowly, and Amazon have https://www.amazon.co.uk/Umanaged-2-5G-10G-SFP-Wirel... at £50.

In reply to a post by ParksidePeter:

Feed the 2.5Gb into a 2.5Gb switch.

That doesn't work, because the WAN and LAN sides need to be separate (with a router in between).

That's unless the switch supports VLANs and trunking, which the cheapo unmanaged switch you showed does not; then you can carry WAN and LAN traffic as separate VLANs into a single 2.5G port on the router.

Even then, you wouldn't be able to do 2.5G up and down simultaneously, because the traffic would be traversing the switch twice.

Another option is get an n100 fanless mini pc from ali express. I have one here which I used with pfsense before my dm pro se.
It has 4 x 2.5gb intel lan ports which is ideal for wan connection and one out to a 2.5gb switch. 16gb ram and 256 nvme for storage. Paid about £160 for it. It had no trouble with you fibre 2gb/2gb

Pic here https://ibb.co/VwMw8Yg

Edited by choppersrock (Sun 31-Mar-24 22:30:44)

I had an Ubiquiti UDM-Pro with a 10Gbit SFP that would run at 2.5Gbit, albeit in a non-supported mode and whilst functionally it was good, the software could be extremely unstable with what appeared to a severe lack of quality control or testing before it was released.

I've since moved to the Asus TUF Gaming AX6000 and whilst it doesn't have quite the wealth of functionality and has an annoying habit of rebooting to apply any changes it actually works really well and does "enough" of what I need it for.

In reply to a post by mrcoyote:

I had an Ubiquiti UDM-Pro with a 10Gbit SFP that would run at 2.5Gbit, albeit in a non-supported mode and whilst functionally it was good, the software could be extremely unstable with what appeared to a severe lack of quality control or testing before it was released.

I've since moved to the Asus TUF Gaming AX6000 and whilst it doesn't have quite the wealth of functionality and has an annoying habit of rebooting to apply any changes it actually works really well and does "enough" of what I need it for.

did you ever update any of the units firmware..... ?

In reply to a post by candlerb:

OP's requirement was specifically at least 2 x 2.5G ports, so the 2962 fails.

The 3912 meets that requirement but is madly expensive.

Ahh, good spot on the 2962. Not as good as I had thought ......

Have a look at the newly announced Ubiquiti UXG-Max

2.5Gb WAN and 4x2.5Gb LAN ports

https://techspecs.ui.com/unifi/cloud-keys-gateways/u...


Although if you fully implement IDS & IPS it may drop to about 1.5 Gb throughput apparently

Edited by MHC (Wed 03-Apr-24 16:54:17)

Thanks all.

Most of the options are past the £99 i could pay to Yayzi for their router so I may just go with that option.

I plan on upgrading my PC later this year if I can so I may keep my old parts and make a server out of it that can run pfsense, be a nas, etc.

In reply to a post by Seansmit17:

...I plan on upgrading my PC later this year if I can so I may keep my old parts and make a server out of it that can run pfsense, be a nas, etc.

There are better more energy efficient options available today so might be an option to sell what you can and look at alternatives.

The router they provide is a nice TP-Link model, I have put a link below.
It is not available to buy yet but I can pre order from a wholesaler and costs me more than £99
I'd just stick with this if it meets your needs

https://service-provider.tp-link.com/wifi-router/ex8...

Thanks
Dan

Indeed, I currently us a Archer AX3000 and the wifi on that is slower than the ex820!

my current PC is still quite powerful and would make a good server as well as good back up parts if needed.

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D with 64Gb of ram. I am not worried about energy efficiency as once these parts are in a server role the system as a whole will use around 170w and I undervolt the CPU as it is.

I want one of these: https://www.asus.com/news/yoavxetsddpnji4w/

Now thats got some ports. I bet thats a good few £££

ASUS RT-AX88U Pro

In reply to a post by Seansmit17:

Now thats got some ports. I bet thats a good few £££

I think so, too.

In reply to a post by mrcoyote:

I had an Ubiquiti UDM-Pro with a 10Gbit SFP that would run at 2.5Gbit, albeit in a non-supported mode and whilst functionally it was good, the software could be extremely unstable with what appeared to a severe lack of quality control or testing before it was released.

I've since moved to the Asus TUF Gaming AX6000 and whilst it doesn't have quite the wealth of functionality and has an annoying habit of rebooting to apply any changes it actually works really well and does "enough" of what I need it for.

Yes when I tried Ubiquiti I found its firmware to be buggy, and I couldn’t not get some things to work. Gave up out of frustration and plugged in my OG Google WiFi system and it worked better!
But have since moved on and tried other options. Asus are good as they still give you a lot of options.