So, I lasted almost a month.

[lydy]

Or as Vampire Willow would say, "Depressed, now."

Now I've got to follow through on a number of plans I devised when I was sane. Been there, done that, but you know, I don't remember nearly so many typoes. Aphasia's worse, too. Bah. I see my shrink on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, DDB is all in heaven because he got a new router and downloads are much faster, and many other things, but at this point I have to bow out, saying "motorcycle motorcycle, parts, parts, parts.)

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Hey, *you* were the one complaining about the old router!

[marsgov.livejournal.com]

Ok, I need a new router/firewall to replace the SMC barricade I currently have. Suggestions?

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm so far very pleased with the Linksys WRV200; it's one of their commercial units (cost $10 more than the home model), and has useful features like VPN endpoint (and comes with client software), VLAN, multiple SSID (I'm running a low-bandwidth public network for friends who come by, so they can get out the Internet), and rather better firewall capabilities. It is, at least, a big step up from the home units for very little extra money.

But I wasn't really studying the firewall capabilities particularly, so if you have heavy demands in that area, I dunno. I hardly touch it myself (NAT does the bits I care about, so long as anti-IP-spoofing is on in the router).

[marsgov.livejournal.com]

I tried looking around to see how it handled the NAT/server issue, and came up with some of the lowest-rated product reviews I've ever seen. I'm reviewing the reviews right now; your personal recommendation carries a lot of weight, but I'm nervous.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

And none of *them* seem to have actually done anything with the firewall part either.

It's absolutely true that it reboots the router insanely often (each time you save a page of data; and if you don't save on that page, it's lost) when configuring through the web interface. That's not bad for making a quick change you know how to do, but it's annoying when first learning the system and doing stuff over and over.

Weirdly mixed opinions on the VPN! I haven't used it yet; I'll have to do some special config to be able to reach it from the wired outside locations.

I'm still tempted to to do some rewiring so I can use the *physical* DMZ port (achievable by config, not hardwired) and so it can be my outside router (just ignore everything in the actual DSL modem/router; configure it to pass everything to the IP of the Linksys inside).

It's been much more stable than the previous WRT45G -- but it had fallen on its head a few times (getting pulled off a computer case by a long cable; we've solved the long cable problem, the new router is velcroed in place, so with luck that won't happen again).