Cisco is the high caliber company in terms of routers.. but lately such product like Linksys, Netgear, D-Link are eating into their market share in the Small and Home Office market segment.Cisco has some pretty good offerings in this market, although when you buy a Cisco router, you are paying for 3 things:excellent quality,well engineered product and “the name”.Cisco’s offerings have always been at the high end of the price scale for this market segment. and since in this market if you need a router, you must bring money out from your pocketthe money’s coming out of your pocket but if you want cheaper, poorer quality routers like the Linksys offerings are doing so well just because they do an adequate job, easy to configure and are bloody cheap.

In terms of performance, on a Cable Modem Connection, this Cisco is by far the most efficient router. This kind of router can go above 5% CPU when it was hammering… The only indication is the traffic that is increasing in the MRTG graphs and blinking lights on the front of the router. No matter what was thrown on this router, it could handle it with ease. No hung sessions, no reboots. This is a great router, superbly designed, great features, class winning logging, debugging,supportability, quality, and a company that stands behind their product. At three times the price of a similar SMC or Linksys broadband cable router is it worth it… Well ask yourself how much lost time due to reboots/hung sessions/inability to VPN etc..

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