[Thinkpad] [OT] Routers

[RayBay]

There are routers with better names, but I have numb ers of the Netgear
units in stock that I obtained at a dramatically low price.  They work well
for us. Easy.  More consistent from router to router than the Linksys which
has a reputation way overblown. You never know whether your Linksys is one
of the 15 percent that are trouble, and their tech support is lousy.

I group them:
1st - Cisco, Netgear, Netopia, Zyxel, Linksys, Buffalo, and SMC.
2nd - Bellkin, Siemens, Speedstream, DLink, ActionTec, Best, Allied Telesyn,
Proxim
3rd - US Robotics, Westell EVDO, 3Com, Intellinet, Asante, Zonet, Compex,
3Com, Hawking, Compex, Watchguard

We avoid the SpeedStream, Siemens, DLink, USRobotics for their
inconsistencies and their poor tech support....

None are perfect, in our experience, except perhaps the overly expensive
Cisco comes closest.


RayBay


On 10/4/06, Jon Etkins <jon at snikte.net> wrote:
>
> You might like to look into running a third-party firmware on on a
> Linksys (or compatible) router.  There are several well-supported and
> free firmwares which provide many excellent features over and above
> those provided by the OEM firmware.
>
> Personally, I use DD-WRT, which can run on devices from a large number
> of different manufacturers (I use two Linksys and one Buffalo myself).
> DD-WRT allows filtering both by URL and by keywords found on a page,
> though it is limited to 6 URL's and 8 keywords; other firmwares may
> offer more.
>
> DD-WRT's web site is at http://www.dd-wrt.com/, though there's also a
> good summary on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DD-WRT
>
> Hope that helps,
>    Jon.
>
>
>
> David Ross wrote:
> > I am looking for a wireless router/firewall meeting the following
> > minimum conditions:
> >
> > (1) 802.11g (54Mbps or higher)  (2) WPA security (3) Port triggering
> > (not just port forwarding) (4) keyword filtering on websites (ie, do not
> > access websites with "foo" in the URL)
> >
> > The Netgear line (eg, WGR-614) satisfies these, I was wondering if
> > anyone knew of/was using a different router that did as well.
> > (#4 seems to be the hard condition to meet.)
> >
> > It is rather hard to get this kind of information from magazines/online
> > information, without reading every router's manual.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > David R.
>
>
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