Re: do i need a new router

From: E. (bellyup_at_the.bar)
Date: 09/30/05


Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:56:03 +1000

Leythos wrote:

> In article <4332A9CC.2432@REMOVETHISBITdsl.pipex.com>, mglu61
> No, I'm saying I have personally experienced several hundred routers of
> all types/vendors/classes, and Belkin is the last I would install,
> draytek in the middle, and Netgear or D-Link would be font form
> SOHO/Home users.

My experiences with Netgear products has also left me with a high
opinion of their gear. Dynalink, D-link also. I am not referring to the
$65 firewall *cough* *choke* *splutter* NAT boxes.
>
> If I wanted a firewall, I would pick a WatchGuard first and always.

I used to lean that way, until the X edge series which were problematic
on stub networks using PPPOE. (they had no awareness that PPPOE added 8
bytes and would cause connection failures by sending out 1508 byte
packets, meaning you had to adjust the ethernet MTU on all client
workstations.)

Also you can do similar with open source on fairly low spec boxes and
get similar, if not better levels of protection, for a much lower cost.
E.



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