Are there Wired Routers?

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bobkolb

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Hey so I've been looking to see if I could find a soley wired router and I can't seem to find one, Do they even exist?
 
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In the non-geek home market -- not the Netgear Nighthawk or equivalent, the emphasis is on convenience. Wireless connectivity for everybody (within 25ft on 2.4Ghz only). Dual WAN, VPN, guest...
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kanewolf

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They absolutely DO exist -- Here is a TP-Link. Most of them are tailored like this one. Strong on security and VPN. They are usually geared to small business or work at home type situations where VPN is the discriminator.
 
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I suspect the issue is that adding basic wireless features to a router costs so little that it's simply not worth it for companies to create an additional product line without wireless features for the small market who want to save $10 on a router without wireless. Don't need the wireless? Fine, just turn it off.

Once you get to more specialised devices (like VPN gateways, Small business products) then you start to see products without wireless. But in the consumer entry level sector, I don't think there's a good business case for companies to create one.
 
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Although at $60 that is a pretty inexpensive VPN router ....
 
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Prosumer gear. I've also seen Mikrotik recommended a lot.

Cheap, easier to configure, but still stable and fast. You just don't get the OH SHIT SOMETHING BROKE urgent support that you do with business gear.

I'm done with consumer routers... did you know Linksys's newest routers have a tickbox to reboot it once a week, because they can't be bothered bugfixing?
 
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Gee, I am surprised that isn't prominently displayed on the box.... :)
 
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With consumer based routers/switches - the biggest challenge is that you have to "keep it simple" or the average person will screw it up, but you have to have it configurable enough to be worth more than just a "brick".....I know people in the RMA departments where they bring in "defective" routers/switches from consumers. About 75% of them are reset to factory specs by flashing the firmware and then pressing the factory reset. Either the customer screwed up the firmware update and/or put settings in that made the router inoperable....
 
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In the non-geek home market -- not the Netgear Nighthawk or equivalent, the emphasis is on convenience. Wireless connectivity for everybody (within 25ft on 2.4Ghz only). Dual WAN, VPN, guest network, DMZ zone or USB 4G failover aren't the things that "Joe Six Pack" has even heard of. If you have done home networking for a while you know that those things have a place in your tool bag.

Inexpensive (< $300) wired routers cater to the SOHO market where dual WAN or 4G failover for a day trader is VERY important. VPN endpoint support is also the area that the wired-only routers seem to have an edge. They have the appropriate hardware to be able to support higher bandwidth VPN connectivity. Again tailored to the work at home market. But these markets still need a web interface and wizards to help with configuration.

Then there is enterprise (Cisco, Juniper) where you better be ready to start with a serial cable ....
 
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