never been able to find a good ADSL router

Sounds mad but...

I need an ADSL router which can have NAT and the firewall switched off.
This is so I can connect two Netgear Prosafe routers to the static IP
addresses assigned by BT and use them for VPN tunnels.

Tried the Allied Telesyn 256 but this crashed when VPN traffic went through
it. And at £54 this was not expected.

The various white Netgears can not switch off the firewall - and can only do
DMZ which as it goes to a single host is not good enough.

Thought the D-Link 524-T would be good but the web interface has a couple of
glitches and so does not inspire faith.

Zyxel was a disaster - VPN side would not work and the logs were showing
that the settings for VPN were not being altered via the web interface.
Could try them for the initial connection but faith has bee lost.

Have used Billions in the past and though they work ok they have confusing
web interfaces. Bear in mind that I sometimes have to pass these routers
on to others who take them onsite to install.

Also, ideally, I need something which can be sourced from PC world business
because I have to order bunches at a time.



Netgear routers have been generally ok - apart from they usually need their
firmware upgrading. If Netgear could release a Prosafe which does UK PPPoA
then that would be good.

Will be sending the Allied Telesyn back but not sure if replacement will be
better.


All in all, the Netgears seem to have the best web interfaces - but do not
do a professional level PPPoA model.

Maybe I'll get a newer Billion and check them out.

Any thoughts?

Please bear in mind that I prefer to have a simple setup as I would like to
pass them to others for setting up. We also need to set up VPN tunnels on
all of our connections.


When we set up single static IP address connections I give the guys a
Netgear DG834, Netgear FVG318 and they can install both easily. We then
get the VPN configured and running fairly quickly.
.

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