Cheap router/firewall with two routable interfaces

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tparkinson

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Hi guys, I'm trying to setup a new network in a small office environment where a network was already in place. I have a client who wants to move to his own internet to receive faster speeds and therefore is now on his own private network. However, he still needs access to a printer that was on the original network.

I know how to do this with a higher end router that allows me to have more than one routable interface (unlike most home routers). Are there any cheap business class router/firewalls out there that will give me more than one routable interface?

I don't have any access to any networking equipment on the original network.
 
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Cheap and business class do not fit together real well. It will mostly depend on what cheap means. $10,000 is cheap if you compare it to routers that cost a millions dollars.

Most any of the smaller cisco and/or juniper devices can do this. I would bet the "cheap" ones will still cost your at least $500.

I would go with a mid priced consumer router that you can load dd-wrt on. Not quite as slickly packaged as commercial router OS it can do a huge number of things normally only found in a commercial routers.
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bill001g

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Cheap and business class do not fit together real well. It will mostly depend on what cheap means. $10,000 is cheap if you compare it to routers that cost a millions dollars.

Most any of the smaller cisco and/or juniper devices can do this. I would bet the "cheap" ones will still cost your at least $500.

I would go with a mid priced consumer router that you can load dd-wrt on. Not quite as slickly packaged as commercial router OS it can do a huge number of things normally only found in a commercial routers.
 
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tparkinson

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Cheap as in affordable for a very small business. Thanks for the ddr-wrt suggestion though- that didn't even occur to me.

Have you used a good solid router that it will run on?
 
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bill001g

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I tend to like the asus ones because they have lots of memory and fast processors. Hard to keep up with all new models lately so I am not 100% sure if things like the ac68u has a release yet. The latest one I have loaded it on is a n66u.
Since many of the routers use the same processors and chipsets I would suspect you would get similar results from some of the tp-link routers.
 
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