[Tfug] modem and router combo

[Predrag Punosevac]

LinkSys is getting bad reputation at least of what I read lately on  
NewEgg.com. Apparently they started
putting very cheap junk chip-sets. When I looked it in the Wall-Mart I was  
extremely annoyed by the label on
the box that requires XP Winblows or Mac OS and that is shipped with CD.  
That is a very bad indication even though
they probably work with other OS as long as they have a chip-set on the  
rauter itself.

Personally I have great experience with SMC products. I have separate  
Motorolla Modem that came
with my Qwest subscription and rock solid SMC WI router (this is the  
second in my life as first one got fried after 5 years).
However you can get everything in one. Qwest does offer Motorolla combo  
which I turned down as I already had SMC wireless access point.
SMC wi routers do supports WEP (which I would not use it but for instance  
in OpenBSD is the only option) and
WPA/WPA2 protocols and are fully OS independent as they are based on  
Atheros chip-sets and
all administration is done via web like CUPS administration.

This is one candidate for you  
http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?event=viewProduct&localeCode=EN_USA&cid=2&scid=19&pid=1505

But I would check carefully their website  
http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?event=viewCategory&localeCode=EN_USA&cid=2


I hope this helps.
Predrag




On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:47:18 -0700, Jeffry Johnston <tfug at kidsquid.com>  
wrote:

> I searched google for: cable modem router combo
> and found this on the first page:
>
> http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Product_C2&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1138056788757&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper
>
> Looks like everything you could want in one box.. wireless, wired,  
> router,
> cable, Linksys (Cisco).  Wonder if it runs Linux... :P
>
> Jeff
>
> On 10/26/07, Ronald Sutherland <ronald.sutherland at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/26/07, christopher floess <skeptikos at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > >   I have this with DSL, an Actiontec that is a modem and
>> router.  There
>> > is also a firewall built in.  I don't know if this is available or not
>> for
>> > cable.  The last time I used cable, we had a separate modem and
>> > router/firewall because we already had the modem when we decided to  
>> add
>> more
>> > computers.
>> >
>> > Good to hear that such a thing exist in some fashion.
>> > Now I know I'm not crazy :) I'll keep looking for a cable
>> > version.
>> >
>> >
>> Yep, but DSL's router function is not needed by the phone corp, the  
>> router
>> admin is often the user, while with cable the router is needed for  
>> outside
>> paths, and router admin is the cable corp. I would think a cable router
>> could do NAT and port forwarding and all that crap but the router admin
>> needs to set it.
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