Business class routers having 70% less bandwidth than cheap $5 router.

[kingcastro82]

I have the following network. (IMAGE ATTACHED)

When using a $5 wrt120n router from a junk draw in my closet, I get 40mb/20mb and I can reach my web server using FQDNs from my lan(inside my house).

When using either a 1841 or 2811(same problem on both), I get 13mb/23mb and I can't reach my web server from my lan.

I have spent two weeks working on this problem with no luck and at this point I don't get what makes a business class blade server better than a $5 old junk router? Can someone help me please?

Router Setup minus the line con and vty lines

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! Last configuration change at 15:17:09 UTC Fri Dec 29 2017
version 15.1
service timestamps debug datetime msec
service timestamps log datetime msec
no service password-encryption
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hostname SERVER_ROUTER
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boot-start-marker
boot-end-marker
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enable password A$$tA$tic
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no aaa new-model
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dot11 syslog
ip source-route
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ip cef
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ip dhcp pool name INTERNAL
network 10.0.0.0 255.255.255.0
default-router 10.0.0.1
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ip domain name HOMENETWORK
no ipv6 cef
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multilink bundle-name authenticated
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voice-card 0
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crypto pki token default removal timeout 0
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license udi pid CISCO2811 sn FTX1204A3KB
username kingcastro82 password 0 A$$tA$tic
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redundancy
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interface FastEthernet0/0
ip address dhcp
ip nat outside
duplex auto
speed auto
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interface FastEthernet0/1
ip address 10.0.0.1
ip nat inside
duplex auto
speed auto
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interface Serial0/0/0
no ip address
shutdown
no fair-queue
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interface Serial0/1/0
no ip address
shutdown
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ip forward-protocol nd
no ip http server
no ip http secure-server
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ip nat inside source list LIST interface FastEthernet0/0 overload
ip nat inside source static tcp 10.0.0.2 80 XX.XXX.XXX.XXX 80 extendable
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ip access-list standard LIST
permit 10.0.0.0 0.0.0.255
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control-plane
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mgcp profile default
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scheduler allocate 20000 1000
end

[Georg Pauwen]

Hello,

I don't see the default route in your router:

ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 FastEthernet0/0 dhcp

Also, exclude the default router IP address from the pool:

ip dhcp excluded-address 10.0.0.1

Your DHCP pool does not assign DNS servers, try and add those:

ip dhcp pool name INTERNAL
network 10.0.0.0 255.255.255.0
default-router 10.0.0.1

dns-server 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4

Which IP address do you use in your static NAT statement ? Since your WAN interface gets a DHCP assigned address, you would not know the address, so a static NAT statement is basically not possible without a static public IP address...

ip nat inside source static tcp 10.0.0.2 80 XX.XXX.XXX.XXX 80 extendable

[Joseph W. Doherty]

". . . I don't get what makes a business class blade server better than a $5 old junk router?"

It depends on what you consider "better".

What often makes a Cisco router "better" are features that they can support.

For raw performance, less expensive non-Cisco routers, may indeed, be "better".