recomend a router

[snowman79]

in about a week and a half I get 4 meg telewest internet installed, I have a home network which involves 2 switchs and many machines which normally share inetrnet thru are currently aDSL, when we get cable instead of running it through the firewall pc i have now I wish to use a stand alone router/firewall

I would how ever like a computer to be able to function like it is on the edge of the network theirfore need capabilities to ip forward.

does anyone recomend a decent/compatible router/firewall for use on the telewest network?

Thank you Snowy

[andybarker]

I would how ever like a computer to be able to function like it is on the edge of the network theirfore need capabilities to ip forward.

Not sure what you mean with this bit. Do you mean you want all ports to be forwarded to this machine, or do you just want certain ports forwarded (i.e. to run a webserver, gaming server, etc).

Most manufacturers supply routers that would fit your requirements. By the sounds of it you want a normal router (maybe wireless), but if you want the first option I suggested above then it must have the option of specifying a DMZ (a machine that gets all the unmapped incoming ports sent to it - so that PC needs to have a firewall on it to stop it being hacked).

Any router you buy (well, 99% of them) will provide you with all the features you require. I personally use a Linksys router (a WRT54GC), but have been hapy with previous D-Link and Zyxel routers over the years.

[Telewest_Ash]

Wrt54g

[Aragorn]

how about the recommended routers thread at the top of this forum?

Most decent routers will do port forwarding - but don't forget open ports on the internet expose you to risk!

fwiw, I have the ubiquitous Linksys WRT54G.

[Neil]

Please-not another 'what router shall I get?' thread......

[Hom3r]

Make sure the WAN port is 100Mb and full duplex