New N router

So, I'm looking to replace the TZ210 at home which was maintained by one of my contactors. It has a lot of fancy features but no longer needing to segment or lock down my network as much as I did, I'm looking to more consumer / SMB orientated routers.

I need:

- Easy to configure. No going through multiple pages just to configure a simple port redirection to an internal address for example.

- N. Proper N. Not N that goes screwy with Apples / Sony's power saving machinations. And good, strong N that can be received clearly by the hopeless wireless on the Apples.

- 4 or more LAN ports. Gigabit or not is not a huge issue - there'll be a gigabit switch sitting behind it.

- Good security.

- DynDNS support. I'll be switching my link to a dynamic IP.

- SSL VPN (that works with DynDNS). Win/Mac client mandatory, iPad client a major plus. Windows Phone 7 client super-bonus.

- 3G failover. Support for a wide variety of USB sticks.

- Under a thousand (including any SSL VPN licenses, etc).

 

You may be stuck between categories. consumer routers don't cost more than $200 and typically don;t offer what you need in stock firmware.
It doesn't matter if you want to pay up to a $1000 since there are no consumer routers in that price range anyway.

Most of what you need is available in OpenWRT and Gargoyle (it's OpenWRT based) firmwares which work great with Atheros chipsets.
The only feature I don't know about is SSL VPN client stuff- you'd have to research that on your own.

Anyway- while it may not be definite answer it's a direction to go- consider a Netagear WNDR3700 and Gargoyle as a firmware- that covers most (in not all) of you bases.
SSL VPN client stuff is out of my field of expertise so I'm not gonna comment on that though.

 

Short of a custom order Cisco 880G and its uber fun command line, i can only think of the Firebox XTM 22W /w 3G Extend add-on at the SMB class

How many VPN users are we talking about?

 

I don't mind what category it's in, but it *has* to be simple for me to configure and maintain. I really have had it with the Sonicwall and (to a greater degree) CLI IOS setup methods, it's so needlessly old-school.

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I see, consumer grade it is. I think Billion makes a Dual WAN 3G router with VPN.

WNDR3700 can do 3G Failover (buggy when i last checked) and OpenVPN.

 

SSL VPN = mandatory. Not IPsec, not anything else.

Think I've found one. Draytek 3200N. What sez the herd?

 

Seriously IMO just anything powerful enough to do VPN and Encryption which runs OpenWRT will do ANYTHING.
There are over 2000 packages for OpenWRT.
There is OpenVPN, IPSec, OpenSWAN etc.
The only difficulty is learning it.
If you need that package which is not in the repository and the source code is available you can port it over to OpenWRT. The more package the merrier.
Anything less than OpenWRT IMO limits the flexibility of the router.

 

The draytek 3200N looks good, not too sure on the wifi though. If its flakey then just grab a separate wifi AP.