<DIV>Hi Wayne,</DIV>
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<DIV>From my experience i would recommend the D-Link dsl 504t, but make sure that if you use it make sure its got the updated firmware. You can block ports and stuff like that on it. And there are dead reliable. I think they cost about £80.</DIV>
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<DIV>Regards</DIV>
<DIV><BR>Andy Hill </DIV>
<DIV><BR><B><I>Wayne Morris <wayne@machx.co.uk></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Hi chaps,<BR><BR>I've had a smoothwall for ever and a day now, which has been fine apart<BR>from its reluctance to allow some people to ftp thru it and also its<BR>inability to use any web cam progs like MS Messenger from a computer<BR>behind it.<BR>Anyway, I'm getting an ADSL line fitted in a few days (I've already got<BR>a blueyonder cable connection - free due to cock up in BY's staff liason<BR>department - I used to have a lodger who worked for them and when he<BR>left both my house and their employment they forgot to turn off his free<BR>internet - a year ago!) - so I'm getting the ADSL line in case they<BR>suddenly remember and turn it off overnight.<BR><BR>So the ADSL line is going to need a modem, if not a modem/router so I<BR>was wondering would I be as well as to ditch the smoothall and rely on<BR>the router to act a firewall? Am I barking up the wrong tree here
or<BR>wouldn't this have the same function as the smoothwall in a smaller box?<BR>Any recommends for such a router? Or if the advice is to stick with<BR>smoothwall, a suitable internal/external modem that smoothwall will deal<BR>with nicely?<BR><BR>And then the bonus question for ten points : with two connections how<BR>difficult is it to set up load sharing or would there be any<BR>implications of having a internal network with two separate outgoing <BR>internet connections <BR><BR>Cheers<BR><BR>Wayne<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Wolves LUG mailing list<BR>Homepage: http://www.wolveslug.org.uk/<BR>Mailing list: Wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk<BR>Mailing list home: http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/wolves</BLOCKQUOTE><p>
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