On Oct 6, 2005, at 10:02 AM, Gabriel Sechan wrote:
Anyone have any suggestions on a good router for home use? It needs to be capable of gigabit ethernet (most of the machines I want to network have 10/100/1000 cards) and NAT to the outside world. Bonus points for wireless, if I don't have to pay very much for it.
Might you perhaps be better served by a gigabit ethernet switch and a seperate router?
Since very few of us have gigabit uplinks, let alone 100Mbit, the router itself doesn't need to be gigabit.
As Tom Gal points out in his reply, HP Procurve switches are very aggressive in the price/performance curve, and I've had nothing but good experiences with them. An unmanaged 2724 (24 port GigE) can be had for $1230 at CDW, and a managed 2824 (24 port GigE) will set you back nearly $2000.
Most routers I've seen have been at most 100Mbit.I think Netgear, DLink and Linksys all offer SOHO GigE switches, up to 8 ports, for reasonable prices, but these are, again, unmanaged switches.
Depends on what you want and what you can spend, as always. Gregory -- Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key ID: EAF4844B keyserver: pgpkeys.mit.edu
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