The Difference Between Industrial Routers and Home Routers

PublishTime： 2023-07-29 Article Source：usr News

Everyone may have encountered such problems in life, such as in shopping malls or restaurants where the flow of people is relatively concentrated, when connecting to the WIFI of businesses, there will always be a situation of disconnection or in their own homes if there are more people connected to their own routers, there may be a situation of disconnection, and there will be fewer people connected. The experience effect is very bad. In fact, this problem is very common in our life. Let's find out why this problem occurs. Routers can be divided into ordinary home routers and industrial routers, of course, the price of home routers must be cheaper than industrial routers, although their functions are similar, are used to transmit WIFI signals, can access the Internet, but there is still a big difference between them, let us understand the difference between them.

Differences between industrial routers and home routers

1. The CPU, cache, memory, and other hardware parameters of the industrial router are higher, the number of NAT forwarding is more, and the number of users who can access the Internet is also more.

2. In terms of software functions, industrial routers support more protocol standards and software management functions. In order to meet various network requirements of enterprises, some need to support VPN, some need flow control, and some need to support various virtual services and more routing protocols.

3. In terms of price, the price of industrial routers is also several times that of home routers.

4. Wireless Industrial routers support more wireless access users and total access users than ordinary home routers.

The specific performance characteristics of industrial routers compared with home routers are as follows:

Higher forwarding performance, higher throughput

Generally, the number of employees in an enterprise is at least a dozen, and more than a hundred. If it is necessary to meet the Internet access needs of so many people at the same time, there are high requirements for forwarding performance and the number of routers. However, the density of home routers is low, the forwarding performance and the number of machines are limited, and if they are used in public places such as enterprises, there will be serious hidden dangers. Compared with home routers, industrial routers have more superior performance in this respect and can meet the Internet access needs of more people. Industrial routers mostly use high-frequency network dedicated processors, which have strong data processing ability, longer transmission distance, and larger coverage area, and can greatly improve the transmission speed of the network. The running state is also very stable, which can better meet the high-speed Internet access needs of many people.

It is more suitable for the functional orientation of enterprises.

For an enterprise, the use environment of routers is much more complex than that of homes, so industrial routers also have many functions specially designed for enterprises. The broadband access router specially designed for small and medium-sized enterprises supports multiple Wan port access, improves reliability, bandwidth, and load balancing, and has the functions of IP-MAC binding, elastic flow control, connection number limitation, VPN application, etc.

Richer routing protocol

Security and stability are also the most important needs of enterprise networks. At this point, because home routers have fewer protocols, they generally do not support internal/external attack defense, prevent viruses, Trojans, and hackers, and it is difficult to provide a variety of security protection for enterprises. Industrial routers generally have multiple security services and more abundant routing protocols, such as SNMP, static routers, policy routers, unified management protocols, etc. Through these protocols, industrial routers can ensure the safe operation of the network and protect users' data from being stolen.

Industrial-grade product design is more suitable for long-term use

Usually, when a family uses a router, it will not be used for too long, so the router will have a lot of time to "rest". But the enterprise is different when using the router, because of the need for work, most of the time even needs the router to run 24 hours, which puts forward higher requirements for the industrial design of the router. Compared with home routers, industrial routers are more professional and exquisite in industrial design, can support long-term non-stop use, and are more suitable for enterprise application environments. Therefore, enterprises, when deploying wireless coverage, must choose professional industrial routers. If they choose home routers in order to save costs, it will certainly affect the security and stability of the network, which will only bring greater losses to enterprises.

Through the above analysis, we can easily see that home routers and industrial routers are actually poor in hardware design, more differences are in software, whether a router is good or bad depends on whether its software is powerful, of course, hardware should keep up with it. Through the above explanation, we should now know why there is a situation of disconnection. In a word, if you want to meet the needs of more than 20 people to surf the Internet at the same time, you must choose an industrial router, but if only a few people surf the Internet, the requirements for the environment are not high, then we can choose an ordinary router.

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