Hello all! I work for a small business, and am looking into a new router for their network. Thing is, I'm not terribly confident in my ability to pick one that won't give us issues, and would appreciate some second opinions from those who are more experienced.
Some details: The network has roughly 30 computers on it, multiple networked printers, one sql server, and a NAS. The majority of those computers are POS systems, which all report back to the server. Almost all are wired. On a separate VLAN we offer a "public" wifi.
Infrastructure is.... older. We suspect and are currently investigating various Ethernet runs for interference etc., trying to update all switches to at least handle a gig.
This network was initially set up very patchwork, and I've been trying to straighten that out. For some reason that is beyond me, the subnet is 255.255.0.0, and it is entirely too big of an undertaking to change it. There is no server rack.
Our current router setup is: A Linksys LRT224, using the dual WAN/failover feature, and behind that a Cisco RV160w, handling wifi, DHCP, and VLANS. The "Secured" and "public" networks are both behind the Cisco. I've never been able to figure out how to get rid of the double NAT issue, but we haven't had any issues with it.
I really want to get away from this having two routers mess, but the LRT224 won't support a 255.255.0.0 subnet or have wireless, and the Cisco doesn't have dual WAN/failover, so here we are.
We had an outage a few days ago that prompted looking for a new router. I'm still not sure what precisely caused it, but I suspect the Cisco had some kind of issue -- the LRT224 was talking with the modem just fine, but the Cisco had no internet connection. Restarting the Cisco fixed it. It's been stable since, but I'm planing on swapping the Cisco out for another that we have on hand (same model).
TL;DR Any suggestions on a reliable small business router that includes Dual WAN/failover, VLANs, wireless, and will work with a 255.255.0.0 subnet would be extremely appreciated.
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