Commercial Router recomendations?

[Turtle]

Greetings EUGLUG thanks for the informative talk last tues.
Looking for opinions on dual WAN load balancing commercial routers.
Should have all gigibit ports, and some decent throughput.
Dont need wifi or fancy VPN. Small office has a few servers.

Someone recommended the FreeBSD based pfSense VK-T40E4
4 GB DDR3-1066 DRAM 1Ghz processor
Not sure how it actually performs.

Also looking at the Netgear FVS336G-200NAS
300mhz processor 16 MB flash, 64 MB DRAM

• 10000 Simultaneous Sessions
• 60 Mbps Maximum Users > 100
• 1000 Mbps Wired
• Thats more in the $250 budget I was given
  
• Anyone have love hate opinions on these types of routers?
• Yes I have played with the idea of putting (Linux) Zeroshell or something else on an old x86 box I have..
• But I need something very stable.
  

Cheers
Turtle

[Stead Halstead]

It sounds like for the budget you were given, pfSense might be a good way to go though. We have two pfSense firewalls set up in a CARP cluster for failover. The system is reliable and has been happily running without issue or reboot for 1.5 years now. If you have hardware around (that you can trust), this can be a good way to go. We’re running ours on older Dell 1750 servers.

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Stead Halstead

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[Turtle]

Thanks Stead!
Good to here.