As our Internet usage needs have grown, we have finally convinced management of the need to increase our bandwidth and next month we will be increasing the bandwidth to 250Mb. (YAY!) We've purchased a new FortiGate 200E and have already started pre-configuring it to replace our existing firewall and we thought that we were ready to go BUT we received this message in an email from the $ISP$ Project Manager:
this bandwidth exceeds the capabilities of the router we have on site. If you are comfortable bypassing this yourself, I can complete your bandwidth upgrade as an office only rate shape. I would have my Technician recover the router when on site for the PRI migration. $ISP$ no longer supplies routers with our internet circuits.
$ISP$ has stated that we can rent a router from them for about $400/month.
My questions are:
- Is it Best Practice to have a router in front of the firewall? Or can I integrate the routing functions into my firewall?
- Is it common for ISPs to not provide a router to handoff to customer equipment anymore?
- Should we just rent the router from $ISP$ for support purposes?
Thank you!
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