Does Cisco make a RELIABLE small business router?

Just as I asked, does Cisco make a RELIABLE small business router? Common features required would be single or dual WAN, VLAN support (at least 4), multiple SSIDs, some measure of inter-VLAN routing (such as a shared printer in an office) and firewall. A GUI interface is really a must for small business routers, but everything that has a GUI seems to either be terrible in terms of reliability and firmware, or be crippled by a lack of features (such as the InterVLAN Routing ON/OFF setting!)
From what I have seen there are several extremely unreliable options available (such as the RV220W & WRVS4400N), but nothing that is stable. I am familiar with the Cisco 800 series routers and deployed these, but they take quite awhile to configure properly unless you have a template or a vast understanding of the CLI. The lack of a true GUI and requirement to run a specific version of Java for the SDM to function makes them a pain for a SMALL business enviroment, but good for someone who has an IT department on staff.
Any options here, Cisco? I would love to use your products on these smaller jobs as opposed to the Sonicwall and Watchguard brands, but I keep getting "pushed" back to them by issues with your products.

Common features required would be single or dual WAN, VLAN support (at least 4),
With a minimum of 4 VLANs, the 860 is out of the question as this model can support only 2 VLANs. The 880 can support up to 8 VLANs. Now both the 860 and the 880 has a 4-port, FastEthernet, layer-2 switch. The 890 can support up to 12 VLANs and have an 8-port, FastEthernet, layer-2 switch at the back.
Now all the models mentioned, 860, 880 and 890, can support PoE. The 860, 880 and 890, can support 4-ports of PoE.
I've two vital questions for you. They are:
1. Are you planning to integrate your wireless with your router?
2. What is your bandwidth?
If you plan to integrate a wireless access point with your router, you need to be mighty careful with this. The reason is because of the potential location of the router in the premises. Most of the time, the router is located in the far corner of a property and inside a metal box/cabinet. For starters, the location is far (to very far) from the clients so the wireless signal is propagating to no one. Next, if it's inside a box or a cabinet the metal shell of the cabinet can disrupt the way wireless propagates.
This is the reason why I mentioned the PoE option. If the location is similar to what I've described, then it's better to get a router AND WAPs separate. This way you can move the WAP to wherever your clients might be.
Next is your bandwidth. What router to buy depends on what bandwidth you've got.

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Very pleased with progress thus far I then attempted to export and self-sign a
certificate request carefully following steps in the administration guide.
On uploading the certificate produced (by Windows (8) makecert.exe) the
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I had no success despite numerous repetitions with several alternative settings
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Brevity of the instructions suggest it should be straightforward and flexible
enough to meet a wide range of certificate formats. There is no reference to
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Clearly this is not the case! Hence my question: What requirements must a
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Common features required would be single or dual WAN, VLAN support (at least 4),
With a minimum of 4 VLANs, the 860 is out of the question as this model can support only 2 VLANs. The 880 can support up to 8 VLANs. Now both the 860 and the 880 has a 4-port, FastEthernet, layer-2 switch. The 890 can support up to 12 VLANs and have an 8-port, FastEthernet, layer-2 switch at the back.
Now all the models mentioned, 860, 880 and 890, can support PoE. The 860, 880 and 890, can support 4-ports of PoE.
I've two vital questions for you. They are:
1. Are you planning to integrate your wireless with your router?
2. What is your bandwidth?
If you plan to integrate a wireless access point with your router, you need to be mighty careful with this. The reason is because of the potential location of the router in the premises. Most of the time, the router is located in the far corner of a property and inside a metal box/cabinet. For starters, the location is far (to very far) from the clients so the wireless signal is propagating to no one. Next, if it's inside a box or a cabinet the metal shell of the cabinet can disrupt the way wireless propagates.
This is the reason why I mentioned the PoE option. If the location is similar to what I've described, then it's better to get a router AND WAPs separate. This way you can move the WAP to wherever your clients might be.
Next is your bandwidth. What router to buy depends on what bandwidth you've got.

Why doesn't Cisco add full IPv6 support to the firmware of the wrvs4400n small business router?

I own a Cisco wrvs4400n. I love this router but have been unhappy that it is not ipv6 ready. I have been disappointed that Cisco has not developed/introduced a new follow-on router, an advanced version of this router adding AC wireless support and speeds, more wireless signal strength, true dual band as well as the full ipv6 for the web additional to the intranet (as they have finally added in the latest firmware update) - to name a few. What they are offering presently is embarrassingly weak. They seem to be ceding the small business arena but no one else seems to be bringing out a good product for this market either. If they would at least provide support for IPv6 on the web, I could wait until they finally wake up and develop a good follow-on wired/wireless gigabit router.
Linksys, which they sold off for whatever reason, has been developing some impressive routers by hardware measures, but their firmware does not offer access to it to control and configure it that I would expect in a SBR, like they began in the wrvs4400n. Either I need Cisco to add that ipv6 so I can at least utilise the incipient roll-out of IPv6 from my ISP for time being or finally bring out an exciting new follow-on router with all the controls of that new architecture extending what they offered in the 4400!
If anyone has information/knowledge about either of these two options, developing another firmware update with full ipv6 or developing and introducing a follow-on router, please inform me about it. I am a 1 to 6 person operation and want to move into the present, at minimum, or, preferably, future. Thank you any one who can enlighten me about this.

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Small business router suggestion

Hi,
We are looking into the possibility of putting in some public wireless access in the public areas of our organisation.
Its a fairly small building in terms of public access and it needs to span 3 rooms in total.
We have a spare BT line into the building - ADSL 2+ - and so will utilize that instead of putting them on our network. We would like to run some router based content filtering on the router - but would use open dns if this isn't possible.
I could do to find a good wireless router that will cover the 3 areas . Its not a large budget project as there isn't going to be very highly utilized.
We are looking Cisco kit - and have drawn up a few options.
Initially we were going to go with the 1140's - but these are access points and as per my understanding aren't going to work with the phone line - as it needs to be a wireless router.
The next area was the Linksys E series (E4200) - they do look really good, and they have the content filtering which we like. Does anyone know what the power and range of the E series is?
The only issue we might have is its a fairly old building and so some of the walls are pretty thick - one of which is wooden lined.
It has the 3x3 mimo antennas and so guess it would provide some pretty good range/power but It would be nice if someone might be able to back that up.
If the hardware is cheap enough then we may be able to setup the routers in repeater mode - however I'm not sure if the home devices can work that way? - I think max would be £300 - but that will be decided when I have some better numbers.
If anyone has any pointers on this it would be appreciated.
Thanks

Hi, My name is Eric Moyers. I am a Network Support Engineer in the Cisco Small Business Support Center. Thank you for using the Cisco Community Post Forums.
The E4200 is actually one of our consumer products and we do not have alot of info on it here at the small business support center. I would direct you here for more detailed info: http://homesupport.cisco.com/en-us/support/routers/E4200
Thanks
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What does "Personal Use Only" for small business owners mean?

For small businesses or Sole-Proprietors, computers they use for business are also the machines being used for personal use. If I understand the new Mac App Store license correctly, you cannot ethically purchase an app on the App Store that will be used for business use. If that is the case, the greatest oxymoron is that they have a "Business" section in the App Store.
I truly LOVE how easy the App Store makes managing one's apps, but if I have to now deal with seperating all purchases based on it's overall use, they have just complicated the small business scene for small business owners.
I fully understand them wanting to discourage a large business from purchasing, for example, Aperture, once and installing it on 100+ machines. But if that is what they're trying to avoid, why not be more specific in the terms of the updated App Store license info. Instead, they are shooting down any and all use of anything purchased in the App Store for business.
Any other small business owners facing the same situation?

Here is a clause from the Terms and Conditions, which can be found at http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html#APPS
*Begin quote*
(ii) If you are a commercial enterprise or educational institution, you may download a Mac App Store Product for use either (a) by a single individual on each of the Mac Product(s) that you own or control, or (b) by multiple individuals on a single shared Mac Product that you own or control. For example, a single employee may use a Mac App Store Product on both the employee’s desktop Mac Product and laptop Mac Product, or multiple students may serially use the Product on a single Mac Product located at a resource center or library.
*End quote*
It seems that as long as you abide by these guidelines, you can use App Store apps for business.

Does tc, Does tc work as a small business server ??

Anybody trie to use tc as a small business data server ???

+1.. you cannot access the TC remotely in a secure way.
There is no mirrored raid. There is no automated backup of files..
Absolutely do NOT use it for NAS in this situation.
Get something which is designed as a NAS.. ie mirrored drives. And automated backup of some sort.. to rsync secondary device or usb connected drive. Lots of them come with TM extensions now. QNAP, Synology, Netgear etc.

Does iweb make picture files smaller? how can I do this?

by smaller I mean a smaller file size for optimum website loading?
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Yes. if you have iWeb's preference set to +optimize images upon import+.
Click to view full size
I ran a test with a 2.7 MB jpg file. I optimized it in Photoshop, Save for Web, as a jpg with 40% quality and added to a web page at 300 pixels by 225 pixels. (iWeb's optimize was turned off). After publishing in iWeb and downloading the image it's size was 29 KB.
I then turned on iWeb's optimizing, added the full file, sized at the same pixel dimension which was the default import size for that theme). It's size after publishing and downloading was 33 KB.
I added the same original jpg without iWeb optimizing and it too was only 33 KB after publication. The optimizing didn't have much effect when the file is added and left at the default size that iWeb gives it.
The Photoshop image had a little less contrast and was a little lighted after publishing.
I then used Web Site Maestro to optimize the entire site and upload it. All three image files had been reduced to 12 KB in size.
For photo pages and their slideshows iWeb reduces the files down to 800 x 600 pixels. One set for me started out at about 1.3MB at 3300 pixels x 2550 pixels. The image file used for the slideshow can in around 127 KB online. After running thru Web Site Maestro they were reduced to 66 KB.
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Cisco Small Business RV220W DHCP / IP-reservations?

Is it just me, or does the Cisco RV220W indeed miss the option for DHCP reservation / IP-reservation in the firmware?
With the latest 1.0.3.5 firmware I can't seem to figure out how to set IP-reservations for the DHCP in the router firmware. I could always configure static IP-addresses on my computers but I have always found it better to simply add some simple IP-reservations on the router instead and it seems rather awkward that a small business router from Cisco isn't up for the task when even the cheapest Netgear, Linksys and D-Link routers are?
I heard a rumour about a bug in earlier firmwares for the RV220W where IP-reservations broke port forwarding / access rules so Cisco might have removed the feature all together I guess, but I would expect this to be fixed and added back in by now if that was indeed the case?

Hello,
May I ask what is the purpose of this? I'm asking for two reasons:
1- I don't think it is possible. I tried it today and you are always able to ping the router's IP address from any VLAN no matter what configuration or restrictions I put in place on the router itself.
2- Not being able to ping the router won't actually hide it as the only thing you have to do to find out what the ip address of the router is, is to run an IP config and look at the default gateway.
If we know what is the end goal then we can give a better idea about how to accomplish it or just tell you if it is not possible,
Please let us know.

Does Linksys Make a Wireless-N Cable Modem/Router Combo

Does Linksys make a wireless-n gateway router, a combination router and cable modem?
I currently have the combo device for wireless-g but want to upgrade to wireless-n.
Thanks!
Solved!
Go to Solution.

I think at the moment Linksys does not sell 802.11n gateways.
I generally recommend not to get combo devices but better get two separate devices, one simple modem and a wireless router.
1. You have a far larger product choice for the router and they are usually cheaper.
2. If the router dies you can still have internet through the modem directly. If the combo device dies you are offline.
3. Less functions in a device makes simpler design and in average more stable and reliable devices.
4. You can replace either device at any point. For instance, if you switch from cable to DSL or FTTH you can simple replace the modem. You may have to change the internet connection setting on the router but other then that you can keep the router. Likewise, if in two years from now you want to get the next-generation wireless router you can keep using your modem (if it is still fit for your internet speed)
Just some to think about...

Router for small business Internet connection

One of our clients recently switched ISPs to Speakeasy who installed a Hatteras HN 407 bridge. We have had Internet connectivity problems using their SonicWall 3060 firewall, and we experienced similar problems when attempting to use a newer Sonicwall TZ180. We temporarily installed a Linksys W54GT router, which has been working perfectly; however, we would like to have a more robust router for their 25 user network - additional security options, performance, VPN, two WAN connections, etc. Can you recommend a small business router with 2 WAN connections? This customer has a business ethernet 3Mbps (up and down) Internet connection, uses an online medical scheduling program, normally has 10 - 20 uses using the Internet connection and will be installing a backup DSL line that we would like to use for load balancing.

Our recommendation for Dual WAN would be RV082 This would be the prefect VPN router for small Business and if you are looking for more ports on the Ethernet, then we would recommend the RV016

How to use Adobe Anywhere in a small business environment.

Thanks in advance for any help.
Our marketing agency has a small 1000 sq ft video studio with a couple fully loaded 27" iMac's with additional thunderbolt displays and a Pegasus 2 16TB Raid thunderbolt drive. I collaborate with remote editors every week but we always have issues with keeping every with the right hd footage and then re-archiving back at the studio with the correct project files, footage, most recent edits etc.
My question is what does it take as a small business to implement Adobe Anywhere? Do you have any examples of how you have implemented it in your business? What kind of cost is involved to make this switch?
We are getting ready reconfigure a number of things in the studio next week and this would be a great time implement a new remote configuration as well if possible so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards,
Chris

Adobe Anywhere http://www.adobe.com/products/adobeanywhere.html
http://www.creativeimpatience.com/adobe-anywhere-enterprise-solution/

Does Cisco ISE 1.2 support Catalyst SRW224G4P and Small business ESW520 Switches?

Hello all,
Does Cisco ISE 1.2 support Catalyst SRW224G4P and Small business ESW520 Switches?
Best regards.

Hi there, the link below outlines the ISE supported Cisco hardware:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/ise/1-3/compatibility/ise_sdt.html
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Cisco Small Business 300 VLAN Features?

Hi Everyone,
Please help me to understand some features of Cisco Small Business 300 Series Managed Switches. one of this is "Static routing/Layer 3 IP routing between VLANs allows for communicating across VLANs without degrading application performance" what is this means can i create VLAN or just VLAN can pass thrue this kind of switch? how about this feautres from Cisco Catalyst 2960 Series Switches " The ability to set up virtual LANs soemployees are connected by organizational functions, project teams, or applications rather than on a physical or geographical basis" what is the difference of this features of this different model of switches? thanks...
Raffy

Raffy,
This switch is a layer2 or a layer 3 switch, which ever you set it to.
If you have it in layer 3 mode the switch can do routing between vlans. If in layer 2, you can setup a trunk port to a router that understands vlans and allow inter-vlan connectivity that way.
Its based on what your router can do. If your router understands vlans, then you can leave it in layer 2 mode and create your vlans and trunk to the router.
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Is iWeb + MobileMe hosting reliable enough for a small business?

I have a small business and am trying to get a website up. It will be less than 10 pages, mostly static informational stuff that will almost never change. I will have a few pictures and maybe about 10 documents that clients can download. I won't be doing any e-commerce, no shopping cart, etc...
I'd like to use iWeb '09 to create it and then just host it on my MobileMe account since that would obviously be the cheapest solution. But I didn't know if that was going to be as reliable as using a hosting service like GoDaddy or AT&T's service (that's who my business DSL is with). Those 2 are only about $15/month for everything (domain, hosting, etc...)
My other question, more related to iWeb, is whether GoDaddy's WebSite Tonight program was any easier to use than iWeb. I'm a complete novice to web page building. I've seen some really nice sites people have posted here that they created with iWeb, but I'm wondering how long it would take me to learn to do something that nice.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Judging by what most people complain about, MobileMe's reliability (uptime) appears to be satisfactory — there are more complaints of MobileMe being slow, but perhaps with only a few pages and pictures your clients won't notice.
If being found by Google is important to you, bear in mind that +"iWeb websites are not made to be search engine friendly."+ ...Read more here:
_SEO For iWeb: How to get your iWeb Websites into Google & Other Major Search Engines_
iWeb is designed for personal sites and so Apple apparently assumes you'll simply pass your site's URL to friends & family. Web-design apps for business sites tend to integrate search engine optimization — Sandvox Pro is an example:
http://www.karelia.com/sandvox/getyour_site_noticed_andb.html

Does apple have any explanations for why iCloud will not support iWeb & is there any viable solutions. iWeb is critical to my small business & we have all been trained via joint ventue on iWeb. Now it just goes away. Why?

Does apple have any explanations for why iCloud will not support iWeb & is there any viable solutions. iWeb is critical to my small business & we have all been trained via joint ventue on iWeb. Now it just goes away. Why?

turbodave2 wrote:
I appreciate your repsonse, but the irony is that Apple is still scheduling "One-to-One" & Joint Venture training on iWeb knowing that it all will end next June. ..
Just to add this : iWeb -- the app itself -- is still supported,updated only months ago and as part of the ilife '11 DVDs still widely spread even though it is not sold on the AppStore it is official part of iLife. It runs in Lion and there is zero issues with the app. So a training makes sense, doesn't it ?.
They would only to exclude the "publish to me.com" part to be up to date for courses and trainings :-≠

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