On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 14:37 +0100, David Simon Cooper wrote:
But then again....The next package down is only £30 and after the upgrade of the hardware with a newer netgear router/modem they will not be using the BT supplied router anyway so perhaps the 8hr reponse will be wasted as this is mainly used to replace the hardware.
If you are going to buy a new router anyway I'd take a look at the Draytec ones...in my experience they are far less likely to crash than the Netgear ones and have advanced port forwarding/Port redirection and (if you decide to go that route) and an excellent VPN server built in....they are more expensive than the Netgear's but for a business requirement I feel that they are more suitable.
The VPN server supports a few protocols and pretty much anything can connect to it. I've had both Windows machines and Mac's calling one using their standard built in VPN clients (you have to tell the Windows one not to use MS Chap before it will connect) and I am sure a linux client would be no problem.