Wireless N router with Torrent client

darkcooleo · 13 Oct 2009 at 13:10

Hi, been checking out this router and it seems perfect for my needs apart from it is cable only and i have a ADSL connection, was thinking of buying a Netgear ADSL modem and plugging it into the buffalo router. Router needs to have Gigabit ports also.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-117-NG&groupid=46&catid=1453&subcat=1458

http://www.buffalo-technology.com/p...iti-wireless-n-highpower-router-access-point/

I want to have a setup either with a router or NAS to download torrent without the use of a PC. I would just add a USB external drive i have to the router to give me the storage and torrent download feature of the router. The router only supports USB file system XFS or FAT, FAT is no good for me becuase some torrent files will be +4GB.

Can anyone advise on this setup i have devised or advice on any better setups / products on the market to fit my needs?

Azuse05 · 13 Oct 2009 at 15:03

Should answer every question you could probably think of

wij · 13 Oct 2009 at 15:33

My setup at home at the moment is:

Code:

Cable Modem -> 1U pfSense Appliance  -> HP 1800-24G -> FreeNAS
                                     -> HP 2610-PWR -> 6x Phones

Wireless is done via an Apple Airport Extreme upstairs, and boosted a bit by an Airport Express downstairs as it's in the kitchen to stream music to a set of small active speakers.

pfSense is brilliant for what I do at home, there's a couple of test machines on the network on separate VLAN with its own DHCP server etc. for work purposes. All the IP phones are also on a separate VLAN with a bit of QoS to make sure they have the bandwidth they need.

I can download stuff either directly on FreeNAS or using my PC, and there is a Mac Mini in the living room running Plex that I use as a media streamer and digital source for my hifi.

I'd like to amalgamate the two switches into one device but (decent) managed GigE PoE enabled switches seem to be just oh so expensive :'(

darkcooleo · 13 Oct 2009 at 18:27

Azuse05 said:
Should answer every question you could probably think of

Thanks a lot, i'm going to have a good read of that. What do you think of my choices of kit? any other choices you would make?

darkcooleo · 13 Oct 2009 at 18:29

wij said:
My setup at home at the moment is:

Code:

Cable Modem -> 1U pfSense Appliance -> HP 1800-24G -> FreeNAS -> HP 2610-PWR -> 6x Phones

Wireless is done via an Apple Airport Extreme upstairs, and boosted a bit by an Airport Express downstairs as it's in the kitchen to stream music to a set of small active speakers.

pfSense is brilliant for what I do at home, there's a couple of test machines on the network on separate VLAN with its own DHCP server etc. for work purposes. All the IP phones are also on a separate VLAN with a bit of QoS to make sure they have the bandwidth they need.

I can download stuff either directly on FreeNAS or using my PC, and there is a Mac Mini in the living room running Plex that I use as a media streamer and digital source for my hifi.

I'd like to amalgamate the two switches into one device but (decent) managed GigE PoE enabled switches seem to be just oh so expensive :'(

thanks for that but cannot see the relevance to me, i have a adsl connection and not cable i need to use a modem, but can i use my old modem/ router - but just as a modem, saving my the cost of a dedicated modem?

wij · 13 Oct 2009 at 21:54

I had ADSL at the last place I lived (2 lines in fact, one from Be* and one from Zen) into the same set up via 2 DrayTek Vigor 120's - worked very well indeed.

You were asking for examples of how other people achieved what you are trying to, my set up is a little bit more involved than what most people would have a need for at home but then I require certain extra bells and whistles and it has the scope to provide so much more than a router flashed with some custom firmware.

It would be perfectly easy enough to use what I have with an ADSL line, a lot of routers can be put into bridged mode (i.e. passing the public IP to a single connected device, in my case pfSenes WAN interfaces) but AFAIK a lot of them (including the Netgear that you linked to) are not true PPPoA to PPPoE bridges in the same way that the DrayTek is.

FWIW those Netgear modems are pretty useful, easy to set up and work well on most lines because they have a Broadcom modem chipset, they're also half the price of the DrayTek option.

darkcooleo · 13 Oct 2009 at 22:21

wij said:
I had ADSL at the last place I lived (2 lines in fact, one from Be* and one from Zen) into the same set up via 2 DrayTek Vigor 120's - worked very well indeed.

You were asking for examples of how other people achieved what you are trying to, my set up is a little bit more involved than what most people would have a need for at home but then I require certain extra bells and whistles and it has the scope to provide so much more than a router flashed with some custom firmware.

It would be perfectly easy enough to use what I have with an ADSL line, a lot of routers can be put into bridged mode (i.e. passing the public IP to a single connected device, in my case pfSenes WAN interfaces) but AFAIK a lot of them (including the Netgear that you linked to) are not true PPPoA to PPPoE bridges in the same way that the DrayTek is.

FWIW those Netgear modems are pretty useful, easy to set up and work well on most lines because they have a Broadcom modem chipset, they're also half the price of the DrayTek option.

Would i be able to use my excisting linksys modem / router just as a modem to run the ADSL internet connection ??? would the netgear modem i linked to work fine with the ADSL line in conjunction with the Cable router?

p.s thanks for the info, got a grasp of your setup now.

wij · 14 Oct 2009 at 02:38

The Netgear certainly can be used like that, you log into the modem whilst it's not connected to a DSL line and give it your ISP login info then reboot it and plug it into a DHCP interface on the cable router and the Netgear would pass the public IP to the Buffalo or whatever else you might decide to use.

With regards to your current modem/router you might be able to use it like that - have a google around with the model number, maybe someone else has done it and made it work for them.

darkcooleo · 14 Oct 2009 at 10:29

Good good, i'm going to order the buffalo router now, its the only 1 i can find with built in Bit Torrent download software and NAS. I'll see if i can use my router just as a modem if not i can bob up to ocuk and get the netgear modem. I'll keep you posted, cheers.