Looking for an Office Router

Hardware Hub Networking
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OK guys

I'm looking for a router that will give me real time monitoring of my internet traffic and show me what IP/MAC is using the bandwidth in real time, With the option to limit that user and/or add him to MAC address restriction list temporary.

I'm also looking for it to be able to make a gust network SSID, with restricted intranet access and a limited internet speed /bandwidth.

I also would like it to have AC Gigabit Wireless and of-course gigabit ethernet.

QoS is good.

port blocking/forwarding and triggering, website retraction, OPEN-VPN support, DDns and Wifi MAC address black/white restriction list, are a very important feature to me.

ease of use is welcomed but not very necessary if there is instruction or tutorials some where.

I'm looking around and I found some of the Asus routers witch I like allot (I'm using RT-AC66U) which has most of the futures I mentioned above but lack the specific IP/MAC bandwidth monitoring (It dos have real time monitoring but for over all not specific user).

I also flashed DD-WRT into it played with it for a while, but I couldn't find bandwidth monitoring or limiting. It had QoS but then so dos stock firmware.

So What do you guys suggest? I hear Tomato firmware had it is it any good? stable? and how dos it work on that?

also if there is a hardware enterprise solution that I don't know about, and will make my life easier with a nice GUI, I would love to know about it.

Sorry if my grammar is bad or annoying.

 
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Try PFsense in conjunction with an Ubiquiti access point. I have the N AP so I can't speak for the AC one, but my N model works great. As much of a pain as it is to find a place to put a full blown PC, PFsense is my router distro of choice because its so scalable. I love that if I need something done I can just install a package or change some settings real quick and I can use one appliance for VPN, DHCP, DNS, and routing. Buy/build a little cheap dual core Atom machine with a small hard drive and 2+GB of RAM and you'll be fine. I run PFsense with a 1.2ghz single core, 1GB of RAM, and a gigabit NIC from TP link. If you need any help I can recommend several network products that will make a very expandable and easy to use network, for little or no money (I'm a broke teen so I've had to find ways around expensive Cisco stuff)