[Nottingham] In the market for a new router?

Benjamin Crowe sneblot at gmail.com
Fri Dec 2 14:09:14 UTC 2011


Hi,

Myself, I gave up on the 'home routers' long long ago due to
> unacceptable flakiness and now run my own low power fanless Intel Atom
> uATX Gentoo system for DHCP, NAT and firewalling. My connection to the
> internet is a VirginMedia SuperHub dumbed down to being just a dumb
> modem whereby you shouldn't be able to run out of any system memory!
> Works very well. There's also dedicated distros for easily doing that
> job on almost any old hardware.
>

This sounds like the best solution but sadly I don't have to networking
skills or the time to build one my self. So it looks like a branded router
is the quickest way to go for me, unless I could possible find a machine on
freecycle which I could just chuck a distro on which would be more or less
straight forward to configure. Any one know of such a Distro? Failing that
I am currently looking at this
Netgear<http://www.scan.co.uk/products/netgear-wnr2000-black-n-300mbps-dsl-cable-router-4-port-switch-firewall-vpn>
.

Ben
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