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| Thread ID: 114183 | 2010-11-21 21:23:00 | Good quality DSL router? | Deimos (5715) | Press F1 |
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| 1155146 | 2010-11-21 21:23:00 | Someone asked recently but sifting through the search results is a pain. We are looking at going to 2talk for our voice requirements but first I would like to replace my flakey SMC router with something solid and reliable. I have a 3com at home but for obvious reasons they are extremely difficult to find now, I've heard that netgear is good but what model should I get? I have a couple of Cisco routers configured for a site to site VPN tunnell and it must be able to work with that (the Orcon Home hub doesn't) it will need to be able to do 1-to-1 nat or something similar as I get my Ciscos to do everything. Wireless is also not required as we have a seperate AP, not a big deal though. TIA |
Deimos (5715) | ||
| 1155147 | 2010-11-21 21:47:00 | Why not do something like the AM300 in half-bridge to a WRT54GL running Tomato / Gargoyle. You seem like the tinkering type who'd really appreciate it! :D | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1155148 | 2010-11-21 22:36:00 | It's a little bit too much, I'm just looking for something reliable, and I'm sure the extra features in Tomato / Gargoyle are already available on my Cisco router (it is a full spec router, i.e. dual GB network ports and capable of full speed VPN tunnels, worth about $5k) is the AM300 a decent enough device? I'm pretty wary of lynksys gear (oh the irony) since owning a really shitty 300N wireless AP by lynksys. | Deimos (5715) | ||
| 1155149 | 2010-11-21 22:37:00 | I think I may have a WRT54G floating around in my attic somewhere... | Deimos (5715) | ||
| 1155150 | 2010-11-22 02:32:00 | Yeah most of the N-Wireless linksys gear blows... I've got an AM300 and had an uptime of close to 200 days before the wifey restarted it one day when her laptop was playing up (Not the internet connection, though full marks to her for trying to restart everything first). They also sync at relatively decent speeds by comparison to most modems, though certainly not the extreme fastest, they're good and reliable in my experience :) You can also run them in half-bridge to pretty much any other AP with a WAN port, and then just setup your current Cisco AP's WAN port to DHCP and it'll get the public internet IP Address. Either way, I'm sure you'll have some fun with it, and it avoids the likes of double-NAT etc. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1155151 | 2010-11-22 03:38:00 | One problem though, I can't find anyone who has any in stock. Are there any other decent DSL modems/routers that can half bridge? |
Deimos (5715) | ||
| 1155152 | 2010-11-22 04:08:00 | DSE does. PBTech should do also. There's the Draytek DV120 which does PPPoA -> PPPoE passthrough, but I've had less luck with that. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1155153 | 2010-11-22 04:10:00 | the RTA1320 can do half bridge, but it has issues with overheating and cheap capacitors. I put a heatsink on the CPU and changed the capacitors and haven't had any issues since. I got mine new off trademe for $10. |
utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 1155154 | 2010-11-22 05:11:00 | the RTA1320 can do half bridge, but it has issues with overheating and cheap capacitors. I put a heatsink on the CPU and changed the capacitors and haven't had any issues since. I got mine new off trademe for $10. How easy is the capacitor replacement? (From the point of view of big ground planes etc to soak up the heat etc) |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1155155 | 2010-11-22 05:36:00 | I had an RTA 1320 which I used for quite a while. It came to a sad end through over heating. | Bobh (5192) | ||
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