[pm-h] shopping for used router - wired

Russell L. Harris rlharris at oplink.net
Thu May 10 00:13:27 PDT 2007


As a result of a conversation at the Tuesday meeting regarding power
consumption, I now am shopping around for a firmware
firewall/router/DHCP server for my home network, to replace an old
Pentium-II machine running SmoothWall Express 2.0.

The Cisco/Linksys brand was recommended to me.

I have an ADSL connection to the Internet.  I have an ADSL modem and
an external 10/100 Ethernet switch, and no plans for wireless.

So if I end up purchasing a new router, I likely would choose a
no-frills unit such as the Linksys BEFSR11.

Perhaps you have upgraded to a wireless firewall/router and have in the
closet collecting dust an old wired router which would be suitable for
my application.

RLH


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