DrayTek Vigor2132ac

A CAPABLE BUT COMPLEX SECURITY ROUTER.

AS WITH MOST DrayTek routers, the focus of the Vigor2132ac is not on ease of use, mobile access or fancy consumer design. is is a router made for small businesses and advanced users. It doesn’t hold your hand, doesn’t have easy setup apps, has no remote access mobile app and doesn’t have a colourful user interface. e ports are up front for easy access and the industrial design is simple and functional.

However, if you’re interested in detailed and complex con guration of your local network, the DrayTek has more going on than most. It supports VPN client and server, though this particular router (being at the low-end of DrayTek’s range) only supports two simultaneous tunnels. It has sophisticated but technical quality of service systems, remote management including multi-device management from a single app, as well as business-grade content ltering that can block services like Facebook as well as inappropriate websites.

Although it has two USB ports, both are USB 2.0 and are not really all that useful as a le-sharing platform. e DrayTek doesn’t have media streaming, though it does have SMB and FTP service. It also supports USB printer sharing, as well as using a 3G/4G modem as a secondary WAN option. Many local Optus, Telstra and Vodafone 4G adapters are supported, and can be used as either a failover or load balanced with the regular WAN port.

e wireless hardware is enough to support most households and many small businesses. It’s a far cry from the extremes of the Linksys and D-Link router, for example, but for a more modest number of users, it should be more than enough.