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Re: [LUG] Ethernet Router- recommendations?

 

Simon Williams wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a good ethernet router?
> 
> I need it for uni next year- at the moment I have 4 network cards in my 
> PC and I'm using that, but I need to be able to get to the internet with 
> my laptop when my PC is off. I can only have one device connected to the 
> university network at a time, so I need to hide them behind a NAT.
> 
> The problem is that most routers have an ADSL modem built in, and all 
> the ones I find that don't only have a 10Mbps connection to the outside, 
> which is fine for internet, but I need the full 100Mbps connection to 
> other devices on the university network.


What you want is a WAN port, try the vigor range from www.draytek.co.uk, 
they have all sorts of nice ipsec/pptp servers and other stuff that can 
be useful. Some of the vigor range have a fully configurable wan port 
and are not too expensive, in fact comparable with off the shelf ADSL 
router modems.


-- 
Robin Cornelius
http://www.byteme.org.uk

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