Maximum Connections to an 2701HGV Router

[cliveh]

We have what I thought was a business class BT Router the 2701HGV and we have a 10Mbps connection with approx 35 connections. I have just spoken to a BT engineer as the router seems to be rebooting at intermittent times during the day. He advised that we may be overloading the router hence the reboot.

Does anyone know the maximum connection that this router can handle in relation to the bandwidth that we have, and whether this being maxed out would cause the router to power cycle itself?

Many Thanks,

[MHC]

I don't know the numbers but you could be totally filling up the NAT table or one of the others that the router uses to manage connections.    Every router will have a limit and will not vary much from the 2701 in absolute terms.    If you want to spend maybe £300 or £400 you may extend the capability.

To be honest though,  35 users on an ADSL connection is not really what the service was designed to handle and the management overhead on the 2701 is very high.

Maybe you should reconsider your network and ensure with appropriate servers, switches to handle DHCP, NAT,  &c and a single entity that interfwaces with the 2701.

[cliveh]

our CISCO ASA5505 interfaces direct with the 2701 all access from the network is through this device.  I have a feeling that the issue lies also with the implementation of the Content Screening, which I suspect is pushing the router to its limits though we only block a few websites though the device itself.

What would be a better router to use to replace the BT offering?

[nikkil]

Hi Cliveh. If you can post the memory and CPU utilization here, it would be a lot of help.

[cliveh]

its the standard "out of the box" BT 2701HGV Router.  I'm unable to see any indication as to memory size and there doesn't appear to be a way to log the CPU utilisation.