Pit Gee wrote:
Isn't cisco like $$$$?
You can get some version at a reasonable-ish price, but yes generally cisco are more expensive.
I'm looking for low $, user friendly and reliable router for a small home network--I really basically just want to connect two or three comps to the same internet connection at the moment. I read that a linksys BEFSR41 was a good router. Is that the one someone recommended here or was it a belkiin? That linksys is a "good un" I read but the forum post I got that tip from is almost a year old. I'm wondering if there is something better now or that is still the way to go. I'll go check the one's you recommended out now but I am thinking they are going to be high dollar business type models. Thanks.
Apparently yes the linksys routers are pretty. And no it definately wasn't Belkin - stay away from the Belkin equipment if you can afford to pay a little more money. They are nasty, very low end, plastic junk.
You should find that the 3com routers vary from about �40 upwards - I paid more for mine, but not much more, because I wanted more features. Have a look on ebuyer.com for *3CR860-95 - thats the one I got. *
ps is it true that if you have a router you don't need an additional firewall?
Generally yes, because a lot of the routers now have firewalls built in and for home users and small business you don't really need anything more than that. You do need to check that the router you buy does include a firewall, if you are going to skip purchasing a hardware or software firewall. Its always worth switching on the built in windows firewall anyway. Despite rantings from various detractor there is nothing wrong with the windows firewall and the Windows XP SP2 firewall is actually very good.
Hope this helps
Stephen ~# DOOM UK Server #~ Day of Defeat Server 82.136.36.14:27015
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