How to choose a decent hardware router?

Question

WiFi

Good time of the day! I have a couple of questions.
1. Prompt a good hardware router for the enterprise. Now there is software on Linux. I did not go into details of what, but the stability of his work upsets.
The number of simultaneous connections is up to 80. Traffic for people is not limited, everyone uses what they want (perhaps this is also a network stability problem, but this is the specifics of the work). There are external connections: RDP, the site is spinning on one of the servers.
I have in mind: CISCO 892F-K9, but I doubt that it will be enough.
2. Wi-fi access points are required. Now there are Ubiquiti, but there are problems with them, most likely due to the heavy congestion of the channels (there are about 15 networks in the office building, and all in the 2.4 GHz band).
There is an option: AIR-AP1142N-E Cisco Aironet
I ask for help so as not to make a mistake with the choice)

Answer 1

The point is to advise something, if you haven’t figured out what your reason for instability is, somehow you need to understand the reasons and live from it.
What, for example, does not suit the option to fix problems on what is?
If you are also not going to deal with problems on a new one, then how can you be sure that suddenly everything should become stable?

Answer 2

Router - Mikrotik CCR.
Website: mikrotik.rf/katalog/oborudovanie-mikrotik-marshrutizatory/ccr1016_12g_/
Access points - which Ubiquity are used now?
UniFi IMHO are optimal, the controller itself sets up channels and power for them.

Answer 3

For the office, I can recommend the UTM Fortigate we use .
Cheaper than tsiska, easy to set up via a nice modern Web-interface + there is a powerful CLI.
In addition to a router/firewall, you also get a VPN concentrator, antivirus, antispam, network attack protection, etc.
UTM functionality is, of course, by subscription, but if you use it only as a router, then it is not required. Firmware updates are freely available.
There is a Wi-Fi controller, but only for their branded access points.
The thing is very reliable - in three years of use it has never hung up, it reboots only after installing updates that are released about once a quarter for the entire product line, so there are no disadvantaged ones.
Almost all models are fully functional and differ only in power and price.

Answer 4

look in the direction
of this option
, I have a smaller brother in my office and I am completely satisfied with him, although I really do not have 80 users.
Plus, the price will pleasantly surprise you
inside Linux, to be precise , http://vyatta.org/
is like the web for typical tasks, and extra can be filed via CLI (bgp\openvpn\ipsec)

Answer 5

For 80 connections, the 800th series will be rather weak. Yes, and this ... not quite a hardware router. Better take, if cisco, some 1800th series. Well, yes, depending on what you are going to do on it.
As for Wi-Fi, it is not clear - if you already have all the bands loaded, how will changing the piece of iron help? Yes, and having a path router, the points will be used only by the bridge, no special functionality is required. If you go to 5GHz, then you can take the tighter Unify, they work well. You most likely have several of them and you don’t need a special controller.
Look at Wi-Fi ciskins when you want a healthy network with a controller to deploy points by 10-15.

Answer 6

Everything depends on the budget.