Looking at routers such as the 2821, you seem to get a throughput of 100mbps (at most) at a price tag of over $2000. An 800 series router will only give a shocking 10mbps. Why is the throughput so slow compared to many consumer routers? Are these routers worth buying for modern small business networks with 100mbps WAN connections?

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There are many differences, things you can do with a cisco you can't with a consumer router:

  • you can configure them very broad on routing protocol (OSPF,RIP,EIGRP)
  • add modules
  • get cisco IO
  • routing is hardware accelerated
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