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Hello All,

Looking for some recommendations for:

Small business router

Supports site to site connections

Full Web Gui

I’m looking for something to implement some basic tests, this purchase would be a one time use for about 6months. Any suggestions on a decent router at a low price point?

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Try UnTangle. they got a free trial, https://www.untangle.com/

We just started selling these after offering Barracuda’s forever. Gives out customers some choice. We are just a small MSP and I’m just a part time field tech, no horse in this race for me.

I think you can set it up on your own hardware for free, not sure if that changed. My buddy at work swears by them and says they are easy to setup. Anyway, have not used them yet myself but the videos and tutorials did not look too bad.

Just take any half-decent PC, put a SSD in it and dual NICs.

Good luck!

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If you don’t need a UTM device and can deal with community based support, I like Ubiquiti’s Edgerouters for tasks like this.

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Ubiquiti? did not even think of that – price point is low I assume? -will need to look

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As low as ~$60 depending on the features needed.

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One vote for Ubiquiti, we install lots of their stuff. APs, switches and some long range wireless bridges. Good stuff but you got to deal with chat only tech support. I mean it’s decent tech support.

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Full web GUI + money/approval + time to wait for delivery = Ubiquiti

Full web GUI + no money/approval + no time + a bit of technical skill = pfSense (on an old machine or a VM)

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TP-Link TL-R600VPN

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…no money/approval + no time + a bit of technical skill…

Story of my life…

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Hmmm next day free delivery of UBNT gear for me from Newegg Business. Just got a 5 pack of the UAP-Nano-AC’s in, already swapped out some UAP-Pros.

The old EdgeRouter Lite is still a stalwart for us, we have SOOOO many out at customer sites doing VPN’s via LTE on old Cradlepoints. A bunch of EdgeRouter 8p’s at all my remote sites for backup access. Wonderfully expressive CLI, I guess the GUI is decent by now.

SO cheap for what they do, I guess the EdgeRouter-X is half the price as a routing switch. Where is the downside? pfSense is big/heavy/expensive in power with no dedicated ASICs. Don’t see the upside.

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pfSense can be as light as you want it to be - but not as light as CLI of course. I have a couple of pfSense sites running on 5v micro routers from Netgate. BUT - pfSense dedicated hardware is more expensive than Edgerouter, so Edgerouter wins hands down on that front. But again, pfSense allows download and install on generic hardware - so if time was critical, you could have pfSense downloaded and running in under 30 minutes.

OP was asking for a rich GUI; last I looked the Edgerouter GUI was good but you still had to drop down to CLI for some configurations.

But now we’re picking straws :wink: Both products are suitable in their own strengths, in my opinion.

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Just an update - ended up just purchasing a PA-220 - easy setup and I am familiar.

One of my other sites has an aging PA-200
I can swap it out when I am done testing.

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OP: “Any suggestions on a decent router at a low price point?”

Also OP: Buys a Palo Alto box

Us: Facepalm :wink:

Thanks for the update, and we love us the Palo Alto products. But ‘low price’ doesn’t come to mind when they’re mentioned…

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…yup. I hesitated to update the post as I expected such a reaction lol.

But you know how things go, meeting 1, look into the cheapest options. Meeting 2, hmm maybe we should go with our standard.

shrug