Re: looking for new router for home based networking and broadband with content filtering
From: abspc (l_at_l.com)
Date: 01/18/05
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:42:34 -0800
Leythos wrote:
> In article <20050118151928.907$rY@news.newsreader.com>, l@l.com says...
>
>>One more thing I want is the router to monitor bandwidth so it will tell
>>you how much you use. Like ok, for this week day or month we have
>>downloaded so much data, say 50gb or whatever. it would be nice to have
>>user accounts and quota control, but not necessary. the bandwidth
>>feature is not necessary, but something i would love if it would tell me
>>how much the wan port downloaded and so on.
>
>
> Most real firewalls can tell you how many packets were sent/recvd on any
> network jack (part of the typical LAN, WAN, DMZ ports installed on good
> boxes), but they can't tell you by user how many. My firebox shows that
> I've sent over 8 million packets in the last week on the DMZ jack.
>
>
>>I know that dlink and netgear do not have this sort of parental control
>>web site content filtering. at least i don't know of anything. i also
>>know Zyxel Zywall routers do that. I myself owned a Zywall 2x, but had
>>to send it back because it had a problem with something and they could
>>not fix it for me. I also tried a snapgear I think and sent it back to
>>them because of some issues with it. SG300 or something was the model,
>>300 was the model, but forget if it is SG, but I think it was.
>
>
> This is where you need a big name player device that has web-blocker or
> websense or other content filtering software that works with their
> firewalls. Any of the big ones allow this and it works well. Even the
> low end WatchGuard SOHO units can have Web-Blocker added to them.
>
I know that the Zywall 2x I had did tell you how many bytes were
received and sent and on what local ip and what protocol. This was
awesome to know, however it was not in a way I liked, but it told me the
info. It even had a report feature to tell you what sites you went to
however the hits amount was off as it included photos and images as
hits. They said in a new device they would fix this. If I went to
www.apple.com it would maybe give me 5 hits even though I only went one
time.
Umm, it is true that the smaller home based routers don't do content
filtering like the belkin does. I mean that I don't know of anything. So
I would look into something else that could, but I guess I'd get the
lowest priced model as I'm sure it would be much better then the soho
home brands liek linksys and stuff.
The send and receive tx and rx isn't telling you how many bytes or
whatever, but packets which means nothing. At least to me it doesn't
mean anything. I had an old netgear RP614 and it did that, but it
doesn't mean anything to me and it wasn't accurate like. anyhow it's not
completely necessary to have that kind of bandwidth info that i want,
but something i hope for one day.
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