Cisco Small Business RV082

[NetworkExpert]

Best home use router.
I'm looking for a Cisco branded router, I understand it's not a small business but I like to ask.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124127

I prefer something I can use a console cable and configure how I'd like.

Open to alot of options, please post & comment

 

[MXHJ]

Here are UTT professional Business router. http://uttglobal.com/default.asp?id=3106
Any question, can let me know.

 

[bill001g]

Unless you want to spend money for a actual commercial router I would buy a consumer router like asus or tplink and load dd-wrt or other third party firmware on it. What these third party firmware actual are unix based routers. They have support for extremely advanced feature you will only find on high end commercial routers for a fraction of the cost.

You must be very careful of stuff marked cisco. There are huge difference. There is the older stuff that is rebranded linksys and is pretty much lower end consumer routers. There is the newer small business stuff but it too is very limited in functionality....at least compared to true routers. The most common cisco routers are their IOS based commercial stuff. The device you linked is fairly old device and is closer to a consumer router than even a true small business router.

It very much depends what feature you need. If this is to learn cisco IOS configuration then buy used 2600 or 2800 series routers. If you actually need a router then you need to determine the real feature you need. Many of these requirements will determine which devices you end up buying. Does not really do you a lot of good to spend money on a commercial grade device to get support of say BGP or OSPF if you are not going to have other devices to run routing protocols with.