Re: Non-wireless router?


"Andy Hewitt" <wildrover.andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm doing a restructuring here, and looking to install a wired only
router. My sister needs wireless, and I'm going to be setting her up
with Bb very soon too, and probably going to let her have my Belkin
wireless box.

I now have a fully wired installation here, so don't need wireless, and
indeed have the wireless function disabled now.

My thought was to do it this way around, and get myself a wired in
router.

With all the recent talk of wireless routers, I'm not so sure about
which wired only ones to go for. I've seen a few around at a good price,
but I can't remember which brands are best now. Netgear, D-Link and
Zyxel seem commonly available, although I have my eye on a Linksys
EtherFast router, at around £35.

Probably not relevant to you, but my preference is for one which supports
Dynamic DNS and allows for management from a specific external address - I
like this for my customers so I can manage the router remotely. Also
"Virtual Server" to allow a single computer to be mapped to the external IP
allows VNC so I can help the customer with using the computer. Then you
need some sensible diagnostic information about the ADSL circuit - separate
up/down attenuation and SNR margin figures. The cheapest router that will
do all this is probably the Edimax from Scan, see:
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=584405

If you're worried about reliability, just buy two.

Other much more expensive routers (Linksys comes to mind) do not support
DDNS or allow remote management, nor do they show anything useful about the
ADSL circuit.

If you need remote management of more than one computer then VPN support is
useful - so choose a Vigor. The Vigor also provised a syslog output so you
can capture information about failures of the ADSL connection, or who's
looking at which websites, for example.

-- Graham


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