On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 06:30:05PM +1030, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 01:31 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > > In three months, you've paid for the router with what you didn't spend > > on the power bill, and after that you're keeping $17.50 in your pocket > > every month. $210 in your hand every year isn't bad.... > > > > Now... are you sure you can't afford a router? > > There's plenty of advantages in using a router (small, reliable, quick > to get going, easy to connect more than two devices to the one box, > etc.). But I can see one common disadvantage - they're less > programmable than using a computer. If you want special rules, you > might be out of luck. If you want to create port-forwarding rules, > you've got limited options, and you may be only able to specify a few > ports to forward. Mine lets me specify only 8, which isn't really > enough if you have to forward a few ports to one PC for some particular > protocol, then want to do the same for some other PCs. Mine doesn't > even let me set UDP or TCP rules, it's just port numbers. > My Speedtouch does just about anything you want plus more, the CLI access lets you tune just about *anything* if you're willing to try. It's a Speedtouch 716 (which has VOIP as well) and was *very* cheap. -- Chris Green
