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scratches off Cisco from vendor list "Oh, that's not what you meant ? Well, the others are cheaper so byebye anyway"
by xani_ 4y ago
scratches off Cisco from vendor list
"Oh, that's not what you meant ? Well, the others are cheaper so byebye anyway"
- bluedino 4y agoCisco's small business line is overpriced junk anyway. The Cisco name is supposed to make you feel better, or something.
- RajT88 4y agoYep. I quit buying Cisco small business stuff 13 years back. They have done many things more egregious than this.
- wongarsu 4y agoApparently Cisco's great if you deploy a couple of them, everything working seamlessly together with one management software. If you pony up for their licenses that is. For anything smaller that doesn't need that, I don't see the point in buying (new) Cisco hardware.
- olyjohn 4y ago> Apparently Cisco's great if you deploy a couple of them, everything working seamlessly together with one management software. This is what all the vendors say about their stuff.
- sigio 4y agoFor small-office and home use I only use routers that run OpenWRT, at least there you can always get fixes, and it runs a very plain linux system. Current favourites are tplink-archer-c7, edgerouter-x, asus rt-ac85p ... all of these retail for about $60 and are more then capable enough to route a gigabit at linerate and do stuff like wireguard.
- somat 4y agoI think the main thing is to have your router software vendor be different than your router hardware vendor. My current favorite small business router is the pcengines apu2 family. I run openbsd on them. but really it could be anything. great little boxes.
- numpad0 4y agoThese are basically branded swags. I wouldn’t expect Boeing keychain from their company store to have gone through Boeing engineering process and quality control, same deal but it happens that with electronics manufacturers, some souvenir grade items assume the same role as regular products.