A friend of Mrs. Schwuk wants to go wireless so her computer can go back upstairs. After looking at various options, I found a deal on eBay that was just to good to pass up for her:
…for less than £70 including delivery.
Once they arrived (the day after I paid for them – great service!), I unpacked the router and fired it up.
Setup was painless: Unpack, plug in and turn on; enter your ADSL username and password, and you’re surfing. That’s it. Touching nothing else, I did a full Shields UP! and it passed with flying colours. I then played around with some of the options and it’s a very full featured device – there’s enough there to satisfy the tinkerers amongst us, but it works extremely well out of the box.
I’m so enamored of it I’m considering replacing my IPCop and green frog combo with one. If that’s not endorsment enough, I don’t know what is!
Hey schuwk,
I’m using a BT Router with no known problems. The only thing you miss is the extra logging you get with a linux or bsd based firewall.
At first I ran it with a seperate firewall but nothing was coming through other than things I knew I was allowing so no need really.
It’s nice to see things are becoming more secure out of the box for a change. Oh and congrats on the promotion