Do it all router, upgrade advice plz?

[Nutbusta]

I need to upgrade my now slightly flakey Netgear WGT624. I'm having trouble picking a device as I have some quite high requirements.

Must have:
at least 5 lan ports (Ideally all Gb)
wan port for cable
Wireless (54Mb quite sufficient)
NAT & SPI

Ideally also:
ADSL modem incase I move
VPN
Dynamic DNS

I've always used and recommended Netgear so would like to stick with them if they do such a product. Does anyone have any recommendations or am I going to have to plump for a 2 or more box solution?

 

[tolien]

Most routers have 4 rather than 5 switch ports, and don't do GigE (especially not on 802.11g versions). You definitely won't get a router that'll work on both ADSL and cable without spending some serious money.

 

[Nutbusta]

Most routers have 4 rather than 5 switch ports, and don't do GigE (especially not on 802.11g versions). You definitely won't get a router that'll work on both ADSL and cable without spending some serious money.

Thanks for the quick reply. If I can just pick your brains a little more.

I thought that if I bought an ADSL router I could just set it to use one of the spare ethernet ports as wan/uplink. I'm guessing now that's not the case and adsl is for adsl and cable for cable?

If thats the case then I'll have to just go for a decent netgear cable router and a GB switch? I'm guessing they would sit on the same subnet together requiring no additional setup for the switch?

This has come about as my internet connection keeps dying (several times a day) and I have to reset the sacm to get it working. NTL are telling me that the modem is fine and the router is the problem even though resetting that doesn't sort the problem. I'm doubtful but I have plugged it straight into my desktop and it's been working fine all morning. Could they be right or are they just spinning me a line?

 

[tolien]

I thought that if I bought an ADSL router I could just set it to use one of the spare ethernet ports as wan/uplink. I'm guessing now that's not the case and adsl is for adsl and cable for cable?

Pretty much, unless you go for something fairly expensive.

If thats the case then I'll have to just go for a decent netgear cable router and a GB switch? I'm guessing they would sit on the same subnet together requiring no additional setup for the switch?

The switch is transparent.

Sounds like the modem's your problem, but the only way you'll persuade VM of that is if you try with just the modem connected.

 

[Nutbusta]

Pretty much, unless you want to be something fairly expensive.



The switch is transparent.

Sounds like the modem's your problem, but the only way you'll persuade VM of that is if you try with just the modem connected.

Thanks

and

thanks again.

RE: VM, thats very much what I thought. I guess if it's still working later, I'll swap it back to the router and just lie to them when it craps out next time. Hopefully they'll just post one out rather than make me have a day of work.

Thanks again Tolien

 

[Nutbusta]

Recommend me a cable router

I currently have a Netgear WGT624 which has become a little flaky.

What I need to replace it, and need it to be most if all reliable but also have:

4 x Gb lan
Wireless (not fussed about speed)
SPI

I like the feature set of the old Netgear and thought it quite high tech when it was new so I would quite like to stay with Netgear unless the masses recommend otherwise.

I'm tempted by the WNR854T Gb Edition but have seen some reliability issues reported on the web which leaves me with the wallet busting WNR3500 and I'm worried that I'm paying mostly for wireless performance which is not an issue for me. Am I going to get a really good lan/wan feature set with this?

Any recommendations welcome.

 

[bledd]

WRT54GL with Tomato firmware (you install it)
5port gigabit switch
AM200 modem (for adsl to work with the above)