802.11g Wireless Router/Firewall/Print Servers?

Hello,

Looking to put one of these in for a small company in a managed building.
Their broadband (as they are calling it) presentation is via an Ethernet
port, so I don't need any ADSL functionaliy. Just Router/Firewall and a USB
print server. VPN would be good, and SMTP if poss.

Budget around £150. Any ideas?

Cheers,

Fred.

"Fred Finisterre" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> Looking to put one of these in for a small company in a managed building.
> Their broadband (as they are calling it) presentation is via an Ethernet
> port, so I don't need any ADSL functionaliy. Just Router/Firewall and a
USB
> print server. VPN would be good, and SMTP if poss.
>
> Budget around £150. Any ideas?


look at Cable/DSL routers from the likes of Vigor, Netgear,D-link,Linksys
etc. Do you mean SNMP or SMTP? (SMTP is a service provided by a pc, not the
router)

P.

PJB wrote:
> look at Cable/DSL routers from the likes of Vigor,
> Netgear,D-link,Linksys etc. Do you mean SNMP or SMTP? (SMTP is a
> service provided by a pc, not the router)
>
> P.

I did of course mean SNMP, that was a typo.

I didn't realise that cable broadband was just an ethernet input. I've never
been anywhere near cable broadband before.

I might go for the Vigor 290G.

Cheers,

Fred.

Fred Finisterre wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Looking to put one of these in for a small company in a managed building.
> Their broadband (as they are calling it) presentation is via an Ethernet
> port, so I don't need any ADSL functionaliy. Just Router/Firewall and a USB
> print server. VPN would be good, and SMTP if poss.
>
> Budget around £150. Any ideas?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Fred.
>
>
based on not enough information....what about looking at one of the
Watchguard appliances? In a commercial environment I'd not rely too much
on a router acting as a security device, I'd be strongly recomending a
proper firewall.

"Fred Finisterre" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:cnhvpg$hc4$(E-Mail Removed)...
> PJB wrote:
> > look at Cable/DSL routers from the likes of Vigor,
> > Netgear,D-link,Linksys etc. Do you mean SNMP or SMTP? (SMTP is a
> > service provided by a pc, not the router)
> >
> > P.
>
> I did of course mean SNMP, that was a typo.
>
> I didn't realise that cable broadband was just an ethernet input. I've
never
> been anywhere near cable broadband before.
>
> I might go for the Vigor 290G.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Fred.
>
>
The vigor 2600G is excellent, i've just installed two into a company across
two offices. They now VPN happily between sites, and I can also access from
here (40miles away) and do routine maintenance/housekeeping. Price is £129 +
vat. The 2900 has pots technology so you can connect a phone to it.

John

Draytek Vigor 2900 is the class of the field.
You may want to consider 2900VG which has 2 VoIP phone ports
(and wifi which you don' seem to need, but there appears to be no 2900V
version )
http://www.seg.co.uk/products/a_router_compare.html
Regards,
Martin

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:18:49 -0000, "John Bishop" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>The vigor 2600G is excellent, i've just installed two into a company across
>two offices. They now VPN happily between sites, and I can also access from
>here (40miles away) and do routine maintenance/housekeeping. Price is £129 +
>vat. The 2900 has pots technology so you can connect a phone to it.

My SMC SMC2804WBRP-G is quite nice. Does everthing I could want it to
except let me talk to it properly via SNMP. It does generate SNMP
traps tho so at least I can see the logs.

Be warned that USB printservers do /not/ work with multifunction
devices such as combi printer/scanners. NOT even for just printing.