Yes. On both counts. IPNR works well. A real hardware router works better (and is cheaper.)
Less expensive: yes. Especially when being sold for under manufacturing cost (eg: LinkSys' promotion last summer).
Cheaper: yes. But that's a quality issue. :)
Easier to configure: yes. With so many fewer features, they better be easier to configure!
Better: no. LOL.
Beyond being feature-poor, these low-end off-the-shelf "home" products are slower than IPNR on an ancient PM 7100/66. They are limited as to the number of client computers they'll support. And most have difficulty doing their basic NAT routing tasks while maintaining sustained throughput at "cable modm" speeds. And worse, they respond to such loads not by slowing down, but by locking up...
- Dan.
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