>From the for what it's worth department: I have a linksys 4 port router (not wireless) and have been using it for a couple of years. The built-in firewall works very well. I don't have an XP computer but do have two windows 98 machines that work very well with the router.
Linksys phone support is very good. Harry on 12/29/02 9:27 PM, Lee Larson at lee at lml.homedns.org wrote: > On Sunday, December 29, 2002, at 02:31 PM, Henri Yandell wrote: > >> This may not matter to you, but I have this router and while it's been >> great for most things, it does not appear to work with Windows XP [at >> least with WEP turned on, and who wouldn't]. XP doesn't allow >> hexadecimal >> WEP keys. > > NetGear has ROM updates for some of their routers to work with XP. I > have an MR314 -- the predecessor to the MR814 -- and I got around to > installing the ROM upgrade just a few days ago, so I imagine the MR814 > has also been upgraded in the same way. I don't have an XP machine > around, so I can't verify it works. > > By the way, the MR314 works wonderfully with Apple Airport cards. I > originally installed mine in the worst corner of the basement, and I > could use it all over the house and in much of the yard. Since moving > it to a more central location, I can carry my iBook out across the > street and still get a strong signal. > > The firewall capabilities of these boxes is pretty rudimentary, but > enough for most people. It's basically a table where you can fill in > which ports you want to open and which machines on the local side > should handle requests at that port. The setup is done with your Web > browser. > > The NetGear routers actually have a little more capability than most, > but they hide it well because the capabilities aren't in the browser > interface; you have to get in using telnet. The documentation for this > is hidden on the NetGear Web site. > > Another nice feature of the NetGear routers is they have a built-in > capability to keep a DynDNS dynamic to fixed IP number up to date. > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. Harry, Harry Jacobson-Beyer Surveyor of the Passing Scene! http://bellsouthpwp.net/h/a/harryjb/ What a strange, long, trip it is! remember: it's not how fast you climb the hill that matters, it's how fast you go coming down! | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
