Replacement for Linksys WRV54G? [closed]

Solution 1:

I would highly recommend you utilize Sonicwall TZ210 appliances to replace your Linksys WRV54Gs. The Sonicwall TZ210 has built-in Wireless N, 7 Ethernet Interfaces, as well easily support your Site-to-Site VPN configuration required between your two locations. I have personally used these unit as well as the older TZ170 & TZ180 appliances to execute your exact same requirements. The TZ210 also has the capability of handling both Client VPN Termination for Work@Home users, Reporting on Bandwidth Abuse, and UTM (Unified Threat Management).

Solution 2:

You could use pfSense it has many features:

• Firewall
• Network Address Translation (NAT)
• Redundancy
• Load Balancing Reporting and Monitoring

• RRD Graphs

  The RRD graphs in pfSense maintain historical information on the following.

  • CPU utilization
  • Total throughput
  • Firewall states
  • Individual throughput for all interfaces
  • Packets per second rates for all interfaces
  • WAN interface gateway(s) ping response times
  • Traffic shaper queues on systems with traffic shaping enable
• VPN
  • IPsec
  • PPTP
  • OpenVPN

• Dynamic DNS

  Through:

  • DynDNS
  • DHS
  • DyNS
  • easyDNS
  • No-IP
  • ODS.org
  • ZoneEdit
• Captive Portal
• DHCP Server and Relay

It has a nice, easy to use web-based configuration, just look at the screen-shots.

Best of all you can build it yourself with commodity hardware, and it's Open Source.

Solution 3:

If you aren't ready to purchase business grade routers (I am guessing they might be too expensive based on the previous usage of the WRV54G), I'd recommend a router that runs dd-wrt.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=dd-wrt&x=0&y=0

dd-wrt is a custom firmware which supports a lot of great features including VPN. I use them at home with a linksys WRT54GL which currently has an uptime of 60 days. dd-wrt uses OpenVPN which supports linking two offices. This solution is a little more manual and involved, but it is cheap and has been rock steady for me.

Solution 4:

If you are willing to shell out the cash, a lot of Cisco routers can do this with a site-to-site VPN IPSEC tunnel. I know my 2800s do.