Linksys Business Dual WAN Gigabit VPN Router (LRT224)

A Great router, make sure you have updated to the most current firmware before you start setting it up. A Big Improvement over my previous router, more throughput, lots of options, the VPN is a lot more complex to setup, even with the wizard. I bought this to replace a DLink DI804HV that I have been using for years. It was a great upgrade. The newest firmware seems to be really solid and fixes a few glitches I ran into with the previos version so now nothing to really complain about. If you just want a router with Gigabit ports this is easy to setup up, some of the screens aren't showing that the ports are gigabit, but they are. For the difference in cost between this and it's little brother (LRT214) this is the better choice if you are going to be using multiple video streams, and may want VPN in the future. The Dual WAN port option is a nice feature if you really need to stay connected to the internet. Hook a cable modem and a DSL modem and you're going to stay up though most anything. And you can use both at the same time with load balancing. The Router has a lot of options that give you a lot of power, and a lot of confusion. But it will be a great learning experience.

I had the Linksys LRT224 VPN router from early 2014 to 12/23/2018 router stopped working on 12/23/2018. During these four years I had great service and will buy another Linksys LRT224 VPN router should be delivered on 12/29/2018 with a four-year protection plan. With an additional Linksys LRT224 VPN router as a backup. Just installed new router and later found out that the power supply fried. Used the new Linksys power supply and my out router works great and I also have extra power supplies that will work with my new and old Linksys LRT224 VPN router. New Linksys LRT224 VPN router will be used as a backup. I have an Arris SB8200 DOCSIS 3.1 cable modem with Comcast Internet service. I use the Arris SB8200 cable modem with dual WAN output to the Linksys LRT224 dual WAN input. Comcast in this area is only offering DOCSIS 3.0 service. My network is a peer to peer LAN network but will be getting a WINS server soon. Accessing PPTP VPN using LAN IP addresses all IP addresses are charted to access information. With the WINS server I will see server Icon names instead of IP addresses. WINS server not needed for gateway to gateway VPN connections. Improvements that are needed for IPV6. Using PPTP VPN from my laptop to my VPN server to my other home servers IPV6 packets will not pass through the VPN tunnel just IPV4 packets. Only IPV4 IP addresses can be used to create a VPN tunnel using PPTP or gateway to gateway networks. My buddies are telling me that Gateway to Gateway VPN passes IPV6 packets. Next generation Linksys LRT224 VPN routers should have 10 gigabit ethernet WAN and LAN ports and one USB 3.2 WAN port for 5G. Must be able to create VPN networks using IPV6 addresses and pass IPV6 packets NAT bandwidth and IPV6 bandwidth should have 10 gigabits upstream and 10 gigabits downstream. VPN gateway to gateway bandwidth should have 2 gigabits upstream and 2 gigabits downstream. VPN PPTP bandwidth should have 200 megabits upstream and 200 megabits downstream. Comcast and other cable companies will be competing for customers against cellular operators using 5G such as AT&T, Sprint, Verizon soon for internet services. Cable companies and land line phone companies will no choice but to use FTTH (fiber to the home) and 5G technologies rather than DOCSIS 4.0. Comcast and other cable companies plus land line phone companies may offer discounts if the cable and land line phone companies can put 5G transceivers on customers roofs connected to their cable and land line phone company’s media converters. With 5G coming the difference between cable and land line phone companies will blur greatly.

I work from home and need bullet-proof internet connectivity, so I have both cable (faster) and DSL (more reliable) internet service. I needed a device to handle connections to both and to automatically keep me connected as long as one of my providers was up.This Linksys device does that very well. I put both my DSL and cable routers into bridge mode and configured the Linksys to be the connection endpoint for both DSL (using PPPOE) and cable (using DHCP). It worked like a charm, and if I test resiliency by disconnecting one of the providers my computers keep working as if nothing had happened. So far, so good.Here's the hitch. I get a fixed IP from my DSL provider and I host some server type services in my home (email, etc). I need for these servers to *always* use the DSL link and to *never* fail over to the cable connection. I can set a policy in the router that they use the DSL link when it's up, but I haven't been able to figure out a way to tell it to NOT failover these servers if the DSL goes down.I updated the firmware to the latest version, pored through the documentation, etc, and could not find a way to make it happen. It might be possible, but it's not clear how to do, hence the dinging of one star.But other than that, this device works great, and I highly recommend it for providing resiliency with multiple internet connections.

I recently upgraded to a CM600 cable modem and bough this Gigabit router to act as a gateway. I briefly had the change to run dual Wan with TimeWarner and AT&T just a few days before I dumped AT&T. If you have two ISPs for redundancy or you want to use one connection for one type of traffic and the other everything else this Router works great. I connected this to a gigabit switch, rather than use any of the on-board ports. Setup was a breeze, especially if you are already familiar with Linksys routers. To see how it handle load, I ran speed tests while downloading large files from multiple sources. I also talked with VOIP while running these tests. This router didn't hick-up in the slightest. I'm sure it can be overwhelmed, but nothing I through at it in a worst case scenario.The interface is just like Lynksys/Cisco routers of the past, but it is a little better navigation-wise. I'm using this for home use, it might be a little overkill, but it definitely has everything you could want other than it has no wireless access. For a wireless AP, I highly recommend an Engenius ECB350.