DrayTek Vigor2860Vac
A small business VoIP router with enterprise-level tools.
Like most DrayTek products, the Vigor2860Vac doesn’t pull any punches. It’s an extremely capable VoIP and security router, but DrayTek rather expects you to know your networking stuff if you want to get it up and running. There are no easy setup wizards, no dumbeddown mobile apps. It’s all business, and it expects you to know yours.
If you’re comfortable with terms like S’IP registrar’, ‘VLAN’ and ‘SSL VPN’; however, the DrayTek gives you an awful lot of tools to work with. Very detailed traffic monitoring and management, VPN server and client (with up to 32 tunnels), content management support for business network filtering, centralised management if you have multiple DrayTek routers set up, VLAN segmentation, using a USB LTE modem as a failover or load-balanced and much more is built in. There are a lot of enterprise-class tools here, if you know how to use them.
When it comes to VoIP, its functionality is a little raw — especially when compared to something like the Fritz!Box. Essentially, it provides basic connectivity, with two handset ports and a single PSTN failover port and not much else. Don’t expect voice mail or wake-up calls.
The hardware is otherwise fairly mid range. It’s nice that it has six LAN ports, as well as a hard WAN port, in addition to the modem port, and all of these are up front for easy access. Wireless is so-so, and it doesn’t support MU-MIMO (though that’s true of most modem routers).