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I've been looking at low-end business firewalls like the ZyXEL ZyWALL USG 20. It supports "up to 175Mbps", altough it doesn't say anything about the number of connections, and costs around 200 euros with finnish VAT. Not too bad, if it works.
This would be for my one-person household, routing a 100/5 cable connection. Right now, my cable modem acts as the router and every once in a while when something's uploading (like a dropbox sync) everything else literally grinds to a halt. I'm not talking the usual slowdown you get with assymetrical connections. I mean I can't open a new connection to anything else. Powercycle the modem and it's fine-ish for a week or two again.
I could always nag my ISP to give me a new modem, but I was on the phone with them already and the support person didn't seem to have a clue what was wrong. My other option would be to just put it in bridge mode and put a proper business-grade router behind it. I'm not really liking the idea of buying yet another consumer-grade plastic box with bright blue leds, but I'm not sure if the business stuff is any better just because the devices are uglier and pricier.
Or should I just buy yet another ~100 euro consumer box and call it a day?
This would be for my one-person household, routing a 100/5 cable connection. Right now, my cable modem acts as the router and every once in a while when something's uploading (like a dropbox sync) everything else literally grinds to a halt. I'm not talking the usual slowdown you get with assymetrical connections. I mean I can't open a new connection to anything else. Powercycle the modem and it's fine-ish for a week or two again.
I could always nag my ISP to give me a new modem, but I was on the phone with them already and the support person didn't seem to have a clue what was wrong. My other option would be to just put it in bridge mode and put a proper business-grade router behind it. I'm not really liking the idea of buying yet another consumer-grade plastic box with bright blue leds, but I'm not sure if the business stuff is any better just because the devices are uglier and pricier.
Or should I just buy yet another ~100 euro consumer box and call it a day?