[asterisk-users] Re: Best inexpensive home office router for VoIP (QoS with maybe PoE)

[Mark Coccimiglio]

Marty,
    Where are you paying $1000 for a 1600 series Cisco?  I can get you 
20% off that price on any quantity (note: Sarcasam).  Its not the 1990's 
anymore.  You can get them on eBay ($50-150) for only slightly more then 
the Linksys.  The performance is rock solid.  Three-quarters of the 
world have used them for decades.  I know of units running 2 and 3 YEARS 
between reboots.  The power company reboots my equipment more then I 
do.  Ok it is true that Cisco does not support the models anymore, but 
you can't buy a services contract for a linksys router either.  It can 
sometimes be a little difficult to configure without any technical 
knowledge but that is what most of us get paid for.  It does impress the 
customer when you bring in the "grey" box labled "Cisco".  As for 
performance just try to put 50 people behind a linksys/netgear/dlink.  
I've used 1605R supporting +100 users.  Not even a blink.  Finally, 
untill everyone is using >10Mps FTTH the "broad band" link is still the 
slowest part of the connection.  Not to shabby for "antiquated" technology.

Mark C

Martin Joseph wrote:

> On 2007-01-06 00:48:11 -0800, Mark Coccimiglio <n3whx at amsat.org> said:
>
>> Mike
>> I'm using a Cisco 1605R [running IOS 12.3(5a)] small office router 
>> with "Fair-Weight" queueing enabled.  Works great.  The nice thing 
>> about Fair-Weight queueing is that it dynamically adapts to lower the 
>> priority of higher demand traffic (e.g. large downloads).  If you 
>> want quality stick with quality stuff.
>>
>> Mark C
>
>
> Reread the subject line please.  $1000 (US) isn't inexpensive by any 
> stretch.
>
> Marty
>
>
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