Networking advice

mstation · June 28, 2015

Dear members of LTT,

I would like to request your support over this issue I am facing and to know your opinion and alternative solutions to can propose.

Kind of short history:

At the moment we are in a 25 user office with a 50MB Fiber Optic connection from Mobily (in Saudi Arabia).

This connection comes with a default router from the company which has what I know to be a GIBC connector (hope it is correct), this means the Fiber optic cable goes directly into the router.

However the router has very little settings and because I cannot apply any sort of limitations for the downloads and user restrictions we sometime face resetting and wifi dropping. Issue I believe could be limited consistently if I could limit the type of downloads (avoid torrents) and limit the type of devices to allow the connection (block phones).

Now since we are transferring to a new office and it seems Mobily is the only provided supporting the area we are going to move to, we have planned to upgrade the connection speed to 100MB but this will not solve my main concerns.

Also I was unable to find a professional router with a GIBC connector.. if you know any please suggest, we can also buy it online.

I came up with this thought but I am not sure if it can be applied:

What if I cannot a professional WAN Router after the Mobily router?

Mobily router (with disabled Wifi) ---> ethernet cable to WAN Router (maybe Cisco branded with added security features) ---> cables to switched and Wifi AP

Will it be useful to think to try to setup the network like this? I could apply all my filtering rules to the WAN router and hope to remove some distress from the poor cheap Mobily Router.

Could you kindly let me know your opinions and suggestions?

Thanks a lot!

Dzzope · June 28, 2015

Or get a dedicated firewall (any old computer will do for a 50 - 100mb connection)

Sir Asvald · June 28, 2015

Dear members of LTT,

I would like to request your support over this issue I am facing and to know your opinion and alternative solutions to can propose.

Kind of short history:

At the moment we are in a 25 user office with a 50MB Fiber Optic connection from Mobily (in Saudi Arabia).

This connection comes with a default router from the company which has what I know to be a GIBC connector (hope it is correct), this means the Fiber optic cable goes directly into the router.

However the router has very little settings and because I cannot apply any sort of limitations for the downloads and user restrictions we sometime face resetting and wifi dropping. Issue I believe could be limited consistently if I could limit the type of downloads (avoid torrents) and limit the type of devices to allow the connection (block phones).

Now since we are transferring to a new office and it seems Mobily is the only provided supporting the area we are going to move to, we have planned to upgrade the connection speed to 100MB but this will not solve my main concerns.

Also I was unable to find a professional router with a GIBC connector.. if you know any please suggest, we can also buy it online.

I came up with this thought but I am not sure if it can be applied:

What if I cannot a professional WAN Router after the Mobily router?

Mobily router (with disabled Wifi) ---> ethernet cable to WAN Router (maybe Cisco branded with added security features) ---> cables to switched and Wifi AP

Will it be useful to think to try to setup the network like this? I could apply all my filtering rules to the WAN router and hope to remove some distress from the poor cheap Mobily Router.

Could you kindly let me know your opinions and suggestions?

Thanks a lot!