jmaccraw, Completely accept your comments. I do know that my RT-314 is very long of tooth. Damn, it was fast! Ok, I'll go look at, maybe, the DLink DGL-4100. I'll save the RT-314 for my Sister when she caves in to the two nephews "need" for broadband. (I believe the ruleset in the old box is still good, sort of!)
Accept your position re wireless. I am just not there yet. I am not a fan of setting my home up as a mini-broadcast station. Understand the "proper setup" business. If I thought "proper setup" was a pedestrian, we would not be having this discussion; I'd already be wireless! Oh, I do NOT use Cell Phones either. I know, how "Dinosaur!" Yes, I may be doing something truly stupid by current standards, but on a limited income/budget, I'm looking for contemporary solutions using OLD hdw as a bridge/bandaid. I am retired and have a house full of OLD spare hdw to do something with! A new router/firewall box will cost $. Fine. So will the CC solution in the end. If I end up with a reasonably soiid firewall/gateway for my "old" lan, all is OK and I'm $ forward. The CC solution exposes me to Linux. A good thing I think. It has been 6 years now and about time I played with it, at least. Best, Duncan On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 01:21 , jmaccraw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: > >You can turn off the wireless portion FWIW Duncan! That said WPA is much >better than WEP and as a paranoid I do not fear using it if properly set up. > >The Netgear RT314 was good hardware (so was the RP114, I have 3 laying >around) based on ZyXel's unit but lacks SPI AFAIK. What you are >proposing is overkill given solutions like the WRT54GS and Asus w500's >with a 3rd party linux firmware, but to each his own... > > > >dhs wrote: >> jmaccrar, Chris, Hayes, Ben, Bryan, >> >> I do realize that most of you have moved on to wireless lans. >> I have NOT. I still do not find wireless secure. Excuse me. >> Yes, I do see that wireless has gotten better. Not "better" >> enough for me yet. I do accept that I might be a late acceptor. >> >> I have a wired lan. Will continue to have a wired lan. No plans to >> change in the immediate future. Hell, I'm still doing my cat5e drawings >> for this house! >> > This email scanned for Viruses and Spam by ZCloud.net
