Hardware update time!
Wed, 04/29/2009 - 16:38
Uh oh, it's time to get a new ADSL2+ modem/router
Anyone got any suggestions of stuff that's worked really well for them?
Also deciding where to put the smarts, embedded devices? or servers/workstations? what do people think?
Tue, 05/12/2009 - 12:42
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My theory is always two
My theory is always two devices, one can get overloaded, you can also upgrade piecemeal in this way, eg upgrade to adsl3 and keep your router.
Just get a simply ADSL2 modem, then get something else to do the routing/firewalling and wireless etc. I used to have a pfsense box, but it is too power hungry, I currenlty have a cheap ADSL2+ modem ($50) that is plugged into a cheap (tp-link) router and access point. I want to upgrade the router to something that can openwrt or its forks, but they are generally cheap too.
Then you can boost wireless, vlan, more advance iptables based firewalling, ids/ips etc.
A little update, I ended up getting a netgear DG834N router
http://www.netgear.com.au/Products/RoutersandGateways/RangeMaxWirelessNR...
looks good, the ADSL modem works a treat, 2 things bug me though:
1) the wireless sucks. Abysmally poor, won't reach all of my apartment
2) no port forwarding. well; basically port forwarding, but no taking port 80 incoming and putting it on port 5000 on the lan.
also thinking of taking smarts off embedded devices, and putting it on servers. Let devices do what they do best, a bunch of simple tasks. Reduce complexity.
I'll let you know how it goes :)