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by twawaaay 1379 days ago
What do you mean "Tech is moving fast"? I am not asking for the routers to be equipped with new features support. Just the features it was shipped with to keep being usable.

One of the main reasons to buy these SMB routers over consumer grade devices is usable VPN support. A lot of those small companies use their routers only for Internet access in their offices plus router-based VPN for remote employee, support or admin access to intranet. In a lot of cases it is essentially the reason to choose these devices over anything else.

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Yeah, and it's a bad reason. You can setup a dedicated VPN device with any old computer very easily. It's also way more flexible. I have a client with a linux host that acts as a fileserver and an ingress point for remote work. No VPN, they just tunnel over ssh to do RDP.