Linksys Business Dual WAN Gigabit VPN Router (LRT224)

I had the Linksys LRT224 VPN router from early 2014 to 12/23/2018 router stopped working on 12/23/2018. During these four years I had great service and will buy another Linksys LRT224 VPN router should be delivered on 12/29/2018 with a four-year protection plan. With an additional Linksys LRT224 VPN router as a backup. Just installed new router and later found out that the power supply fried. Used the new Linksys power supply and my out router works great and I also have extra power supplies that will work with my new and old Linksys LRT224 VPN router. New Linksys LRT224 VPN router will be used as a backup. I have an Arris SB8200 DOCSIS 3.1 cable modem with Comcast Internet service. I use the Arris SB8200 cable modem with dual WAN output to the Linksys LRT224 dual WAN input. Comcast in this area is only offering DOCSIS 3.0 service. My network is a peer to peer LAN network but will be getting a WINS server soon. Accessing PPTP VPN using LAN IP addresses all IP addresses are charted to access information. With the WINS server I will see server Icon names instead of IP addresses. WINS server not needed for gateway to gateway VPN connections. Improvements that are needed for IPV6. Using PPTP VPN from my laptop to my VPN server to my other home servers IPV6 packets will not pass through the VPN tunnel just IPV4 packets. Only IPV4 IP addresses can be used to create a VPN tunnel using PPTP or gateway to gateway networks. My buddies are telling me that Gateway to Gateway VPN passes IPV6 packets. Next generation Linksys LRT224 VPN routers should have 10 gigabit ethernet WAN and LAN ports and one USB 3.2 WAN port for 5G. Must be able to create VPN networks using IPV6 addresses and pass IPV6 packets NAT bandwidth and IPV6 bandwidth should have 10 gigabits upstream and 10 gigabits downstream. VPN gateway to gateway bandwidth should have 2 gigabits upstream and 2 gigabits downstream. VPN PPTP bandwidth should have 200 megabits upstream and 200 megabits downstream. Comcast and other cable companies will be competing for customers against cellular operators using 5G such as AT&T, Sprint, Verizon soon for internet services. Cable companies and land line phone companies will no choice but to use FTTH (fiber to the home) and 5G technologies rather than DOCSIS 4.0. Comcast and other cable companies plus land line phone companies may offer discounts if the cable and land line phone companies can put 5G transceivers on customers roofs connected to their cable and land line phone company’s media converters. With 5G coming the difference between cable and land line phone companies will blur greatly.

Took a while to confirm this - unfortunately does not support link aggregation with a cable modem, although the load balancing does improve speed by about 100mbps. Returning because of that.Note that this product is. It supported from the Linksys tech support website in anyway. You have to call in and then they may again transfer you to the SMB specific support people on the phone.They won’t know anything about the product either. However after talking to the second SMB support guy it was confirmed that this does not support link aggregation.Load balancing does work. That is about 100mbps faster than without - but this is not true link aggregation.At this time the only router which I can find which a non IT person can buy which supports true link aggregation is the NETGEAR RAX80 WiFi 6 router - sadly no wired router I can find. If that works, will add a review for that product (it is on the way now).I asked a question here and they told me “go to the Facebook support page” - I did, and nobody answered anything there. That page is dead.Bad support.

Linksys packs a lot of features into this router. IPv4, IPv6, Firewall, Routing protocols, VPNs, and much more. It's quite an impressive little box. In my case, I used it to divide one network into two and the LRT214 gets the job done without a hassle. The web-interface feels a bit laggy but, performance-wise, the LRT214 delivers the goods. It's missing some higher-end features like support for external authentication (stuff like OpenLDAP, TACACS+, etc.), and only supports RIPv1,v2, and RIPng but given the price of this router, that's probably expected. Yet, this router does support sending logs to a remote server.The separate DMZ port is nice and allows for some interesting networking fun.All in all, given the cost of the LRT214 and its target market, it's a winner, in my opinion. Even with the slow web interface, it's a good, low-cost router for home and even some small business use.UPDATE: 1/17/2018Had an issue with the router locking up and quit passing traffic every few days. Traced the problem to firewall logging. This router doesn't appear to have any form of log rotation so when the router log fills up, bad things happen. Be mindful of that when creating firewall rules. You might have to disable logging of certain firewall events.After I disabled logging of denied packets, the router stayed online and performed as expected.

A Great router, make sure you have updated to the most current firmware before you start setting it up. A Big Improvement over my previous router, more throughput, lots of options, the VPN is a lot more complex to setup, even with the wizard. I bought this to replace a DLink DI804HV that I have been using for years. It was a great upgrade. The newest firmware seems to be really solid and fixes a few glitches I ran into with the previos version so now nothing to really complain about. If you just want a router with Gigabit ports this is easy to setup up, some of the screens aren't showing that the ports are gigabit, but they are. For the difference in cost between this and it's little brother (LRT214) this is the better choice if you are going to be using multiple video streams, and may want VPN in the future. The Dual WAN port option is a nice feature if you really need to stay connected to the internet. Hook a cable modem and a DSL modem and you're going to stay up though most anything. And you can use both at the same time with load balancing. The Router has a lot of options that give you a lot of power, and a lot of confusion. But it will be a great learning experience.