Hey,

i'm trying to buy a wireless router/modem (combined thing). This will be used to give wireless access to my flat.

Currently, the internet comes in and is routed by my flatmate's linux box. He moving out.

We are on BT Broadbad and the internet comes in, through the microfilter and into the linux box. I would like to replace the linux box with a wireless router/modem. The connection from the phone line is an RJ-11 (as far as I've understood). Does RJ-11 sound like the right one to everyone? Is that what you would expect for a broadband?

Anyway, I would like some recommendations for a router/modem. The main things I want are:

0. HTTP based management
1. firewall, wep, mac filtering etc. i.e. lots of security features.
2. a built in rj-45 switch.
3. ability to turn off routing/modem and just use it as a wireless access point. In case I ever need that.
4. Ideally, LOTS AND LOTS OF LITTLE FLASHY LIGHTS!!

I guess they all come with port forwarding etc. I really need to SSH into my flat network from uni. I guess I can set it up to automatically forward an SSH request to one of the IPs on my flat network. COrrect? The same for FTP and HTTP requests?

One general question about modems/routers etc. Does it automatically dial up to the ISP (once you have told it the ISPs IP and password etc)?

Thanks in advance for your help.
Hamish

The ones I'm currently looking at are:

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=59951

http://www.dabs.com/uk/channels/hard...quicklinx=2SFG

H

I've had good luck with a Linksys 802.11b router/WAP here in the US. The only problem I ran into was I had to recompile my kernel to remove Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN). For some reason that was enabled by default and prevented me from connecting to the router's web software. Other than that, its been problem free.


It is drop dead easy with the Linksys router software. There is a page where you enter the port and the IP address you want to forward that traffic to.


That is the general idea, although broadband is going to work quite differently from dial-up. You may have to enter a username and password into the router (Linksys can handle that) but often your ISP is just looking for a MAC adddress. You may have to clone the MAC address your flat mate has been using to connect however. It is easy with the Linksys, but you have to get the MAC address from your mate before he takes off. The other way to do it is to call up your ISP and ask them to reset the MAC address.

Have you any suggestions which wireless card I should get? One which is 802.11g and works well in linux?

Hamish

Actually, the only adivce I can give you is which cards NOT to get. Do your homework and REALLY avoid cards using any Broadcom chipsets. Since Broadcom won't write linux drivers and won't release enough information for someone else to do it, you end up using ndiswrapper or linuxant, But since those rely on using Windows drivers, you lose functionallity. Programs like Airsnort or Kismet won't work through ndiswrapper.

I have a Dell Truemobile 802.11g card that uses a broadcom chipset and while it does work, that is about all I can say for it.