Hello, long time lurker, first time poster.
We have a small home business that entails us running a lot of virtual machines in VMware. Since it started as more of a hobby, until recently we had done this on our residential fios using the standard Actiontec MI424WR Rev 1. Recently we expanded to a new physical machine that increased our VM count to ~ 120 and the net started crashing (losing all connectivity) every 24 hrs. After resetting the router, everything was fine for another 24 hrs or so.
I assumed that it was too much traffic on the network so we signed up for fios small business in addition to our residential. In the meantime, I talked to verizon tech and they said it was because the router couldn't handle all the IP's needing to be handed out to the VM's. To my dismay, our small business service came with the same router so the only way I'm able to run at this point is by splitting the VM's over the two networks.
So I hired a network tech I found on craigslist (probably a bad idea I know) to direct me to find a better router, as everyone at fios tells me the limitation is the router, not the actual fios service. The guy tells me I need a $4k Sonic Wall 3000 and a $600 support contract, otherwise any other router I run is going to be limited to ~ 100 VM's.
So my question is, is there really no middle ground between my $150 Actiontec that can handle around ~ 100 IP's and the $4k router that is supposedly capable of handling 255?
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