[Wylug-help] Inexpensive Broadband Router & Firewall (for Virgin Broadband)

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 20 May 2007, Andrew J Cole wrote:
> I am looking for inexpensive bradband routers for two retired former
> colleagues who will shortly be vacating their office (and IT facilities)
> in the university.  Both have had NTL (now Virgin) phone and TV service
> at home for some years and are unlikly to change supplier.
>
> So I am seeking recent experience with inexpensive broadband routers, for
> use with Virgin Cable, which incorporate an easy to configure firewall and
> wireless access point and at least two 10/100BaseT autosensing LAN ports.
>
> Expecting a deluge of replies it might be best if they came to me only
> and I will (eventually) summarise back to the list.
>
I'd steer clear of the Draft N routers for now.  I've used D-Link and Netgear 
b/g routers.  D-Link are cheap and OK if the need is simple.  624+ is a good 
example.  Netgear is a little more expensive, but tends to be more 
configurable.  I like the DG834G,

My £0.02 :-)

Anne
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