Wired WAN Router with 24 LAN ports

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cadmanager

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Looking for SOHO solution and need multiple LAN ports with WAN port for modem. Cisco RV325 Dual Gigabit WAN VPN Router seems best fit but really wanted 24 gigabyte port router for expansion.

So question is are there any wired 24 gigabyte port routers that allow PPPoE input (i.e managed) and has a WAN port for RJ45 modem connection, or can I utilise one of the LAN ports as WAN?

Thanks in advance.
 
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Not sure what advantage that has other than being in one box.

When you look at what is inside most routers you have a router processor, a switch asic chip and a couple wireless radio chips. Logically the switch asic chip appears as a external switch to the router and is connected via a internal 1g link. There really is not a lot of difference between the switch being a chip in the same box or you had it in a different box and used a actual cable to connect them.

Now routerboard things are kinda strange so its hard to say but to get performance I suspect they also use asic based switch chips. Now they could use the general processor chip to do it but it will not perform as well as a hardware based switch.
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Thanks. knew that, but want to rationalize devices drawing power and wireless signal has proven to be poor over site footprint and atmospherics. Basically looking for any router or solution with WAN port (or LAN that can be setup as WAN) and more than the standard 4-8 LAN ports. Have a 8 port WIFI router but am quickly running out of ports.

I was under the impression that the CRS125-24G-1S-IN might do the job as well but not that tech savvy to be sure.
 
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I would think if you are in a SOHO environment you wanna have a hardware firewall, either provided by ISP or customer owned, and inserted between modem and big switch.

ISP Modem ---> HW FW ---> 24 ports Switch.

I have not paid attention to those 24/48 switches but I've looked at the 8/16 smart switches they often have this power saving feature if you want to investigate further.

The CRS125-24G-1S-IN is a "router" in his original meaning that let you have multiple subnets in the enterprise, not router as in a WAN router.
 
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Not sure what advantage that has other than being in one box.

When you look at what is inside most routers you have a router processor, a switch asic chip and a couple wireless radio chips. Logically the switch asic chip appears as a external switch to the router and is connected via a internal 1g link. There really is not a lot of difference between the switch being a chip in the same box or you had it in a different box and used a actual cable to connect them.

Now routerboard things are kinda strange so its hard to say but to get performance I suspect they also use asic based switch chips. Now they could use the general processor chip to do it but it will not perform as well as a hardware based switch.
 
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