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muddyweb:
If you have an old PC kicking around, get a cheap ADSL card, and download a copy of Smoothwall GPL.

Provides NAT routing, firewalling, intrusion detection, port forwarding, DMZ support, etc...   and is kept up to date....  and it's free.

My only connections to Smoothwall are that I use a system for my network, and that Datalas (Darren) works for them :-)

thermidorthelobster:
Turns out that, for once, the router is OK.  It's the Netgear Wireless access point that's failed.  They're sending a replacement.

I have to say, the Netgear stuff was great at first, but it's not very reliable.  This will be my third access point (ME102) in 15 months, which isn't great seeing as it's a purely electrical item with no moving parts.

I'd be quite interested in getting shot of both the router and the access point and replacing them with a single unit (wifi ADSL router) with all the NAT translation, port forwarding, etc, but which was made by somebody other than Netgear.

Meanwhile I've bodged the server in as a gateway for everything else, it's a crappy setup but at least it gets me back on the Net.

David

Thrasher:
David,

D-Link stuff is better, but for complete "it will last and work" I'd go Cisco ;-)

thermidorthelobster:
Thanks Neil.  I was in Tottenham Court Road earlier so I picked up a Linksys box, which I gather is Cisco's home brand.  I hope so anyway.  All now up and running.  Long may it continue!

David.

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