Classic guide to purchasing broadband routers for Internet cafes

For many Internet cafe administrators, it is very important to correctly buy broadband routers for Internet cafes. With the rich Internet resources, many friends want to obtain resources through the network and even perform various entertainment through the network, the Internet cafe industry has become more prosperous.

Internet cafes are a multi-person and complex environment. The speed and stability of Internet access are critical. Therefore, many Internet cafes use 10 MB broadband or fiber-optic access. In order to facilitate management, speed improvement, and network security improvement, vrouters have become the core devices purchased by Internet cafes. However, some users do not understand the real role of broadband routers in Internet cafes. Therefore, they are "confused" when purchasing vrouters. Why are Internet cafes using broadband routers in Internet cafes? How to select a Broadband Router is critical for Internet cafes.

Why is Internet cafe vro used?

To enable Internet access from dozens or even hundreds of computers at the same time in Internet cafes, you must set up a LAN. When talking about lan, everyone will think of proxy servers, proxy servers are commonly used by Internet cafes in the past, but they have many defects, such as complicated software settings and a separate high-end host server, this increases the difficulty of maintaining Internet cafes. Once a software or server problem occurs, professional personnel are required to fix it quickly. This is why 1-3 excellent network administrators are required for Internet cafes, however, with the Internet cafe Broadband Router, you can get rid of the complicated settings in the software and save the purchase funds for host servers, regardless of investment or maintenance convenience, broadband routers in Internet cafes have become essential devices for Internet cafes.

The Internet cafe Broadband Router has the automatic routing function. It is very convenient to set the broadband parameters and connect to the network device so that each computer can automatically access the internet, internet users are constantly browsing, chatting, downloading, video on demand, and online games at the same time. The data traffic is huge, and the internet cafe Broadband Router can automatically distribute data, it solves the problems of slow Internet access speed, disconnection, and pause in Internet cafes. Internet users in Internet cafes are of different ages and different operation levels. Therefore, computers in Internet cafes are vulnerable to viruses and Trojans. Although anti-virus software and software firewalls can be used for protection, they are not an ideal solution after all, internet cafe broadband routers generally have built-in firewall, access control, domain name filtering, MAC address filtering, and other functions. They intercept network virus attacks from the network entrance, more reliable prevention of network hacker intrusion, provides a stable, reliable and secure operating environment for Internet cafe computers.

Internet cafes have different sizes. Some Internet cafes only have dozens of machines, while some have hundreds of machines, large Internet cafes, or even hundreds of computers. Based on the size and budget of Internet cafes, internet cafe owners will select different network bandwidth based on the situation. Generally, many small Internet cafes only choose 10 mb adsl bandwidth. These Internet cafes have low investment and are not of high grade, generally, there are a variety of economically underdeveloped regions such as county towns and counties, which only meet the daily online entertainment needs of netizens. Due to the low number of machines, there are not many fever-level netizens playing 3D games, it is enough to choose a single-port router with a price of around 800 yuan. Some small-sized Internet cafes can even choose a SOHO-type router, and then work with a switch to basically meet the needs of multi-machine networking. Of course, some ordinary leisure areas of large Internet cafes also need to independently arrange a 10 mb adsl for supply due to insufficient bandwidth. At this time, the single-port router within 1000 yuan can also meet the needs.

For medium-sized Internet cafes with 100 computers, 10 mb adsl obviously cannot meet the bandwidth needs. However, fiber access ports are not activated in some regions, or the cost of fiber access is too high, this type of Internet cafes sometimes use multiple ADSL lines to alleviate the drawbacks brought about by slow network speeds. After all, the monthly fee of two 10 mb adsl lines is not expensive, in order to bring the Internet site back rate, these costs are also reasonable. Even if fiber-optic access is adopted, routers should have better performance. Therefore, medium-sized Internet cafes should choose vrouters with dual-WAN interfaces of about 2000 yuan. For large Internet cafes with hundreds of computers, multiple multi-mode bandwidth combinations of ADSL and optical fiber access are generally used. For example, 100 machines in the Common Internet area use a 10 mb adsl bandwidth, 80 casual video and entertainment machines use a 100 mb adsl bandwidth, while 100 machines in the game zone use an optical fiber, at this time, You must select a multi-wan interface router with a price of more than 3000 yuan to support the interface of MB Nic ).

According to different broadband access methods, routers can be divided into two types: single WAN and multi-WAN. The interfaces connecting a router and WAN are called WAN interfaces.) A single WAN router only has one WAN interface, it can only be used with one network bandwidth. The routers of two or more WAN ports are multiple WAN routers, which can connect multiple bandwidths at the same time. This is especially suitable for large Internet cafes. Multiple WAN ports route various transmission request data in the LAN, the server Load balancer policies configured in advance are allocated to different broadband outlets, so as to achieve intelligent dynamic information traffic distribution and make the Internet cafe network system run better.

Router purchase considerations

Security is the most important thing to ignore. At present, most broadband routers in Internet cafes provide built-in firewall functions and provide domain name filtering, MAC address filtering, and other functions, however, nowadays, Network Trojan makers do not care about such common functions. Many new network viruses and Trojans are constantly emerging. If they are large Internet cafes, they must pay more attention to the anti-virus capabilities of routers, for example, the common ARP attacks continue to cause tragedies in Internet cafes, and the products with built-in ARP attack active defense function can effectively avoid ARP attacks caused by PC poisoning in LAN. In addition, to facilitate maintenance and operation, you should choose products that provide full-Chinese WEB configuration functions. Some Internet cafe broadband routers also provide wireless functions, but this function has little value for Internet cafes, and the price is more expensive. It is not recommended for Internet cafe users to purchase.

When purchasing a router, the Internet cafe owner must be concerned with problems related to performance, security, stability, and ease of use. For example, stability is closely related to heat dissipation, we recommend that you use a router with high redundancy and built-in power supply, because this can reduce electromagnetic interference and improve stability. At the same time, you must choose a product with a heat dissipation design, it is recommended that the shell material be of full steel and products with good ventilation and heat dissipation. For performance, it generally depends on the processor used by the router. The higher the processor frequency, the better the performance. At the same time, it can cope with more computer networking, many routers now use 64-bit network processors or even dual-core processors. For example, H3C ER5100/ER5200 is equipped with a 64-bit dual-core network processor with a clock speed of up to MHz, the processing capability is equivalent to a professional network processor of 1 GHz, with hundreds of machines, which is very suitable for high-end Internet cafes.