Heavy Duty Router for Purdue Dorm

[ccb056]

I was wondering if I buy this router, if I could plug my dorm's ethernet cable into the internet port of the router, have the router either setup a dynamic ip or static ip, and then place computers behind the router and have the router act as a firewall between my computers and all other computers on the network.

 

[klingens]

Linksys, Netgear, D-Link, Belkin, etc are never "heavy duty". That's networking kit frm Cisco, Juniper and the like.
The router is totally useless for you: it's made for teleworking people who need to VPN over the internet back to their place of empleyment. This is why it's so expensive while still being linksys consumer stuff. Buy a Linksys WRT54G. half the price, WLAN included and more capable doing stuff you can use in your case. I very much doubt the purdue.edu staff encrypts traffic in the dorms with VPNs...

 

[ccb056]

The reason the router is so expensive is not because I need the VPN feature, but rather I want something where the WAN port is capable of fast ethernet, 100 MBPS, all the other routers have a 10MBPS wan port.

 

[klingens]

Get an old PC and use Linux for a router. if you choose your components right, you can run it without any fan, not even in the PSU, and no harddisks using a floppyrouter like coyote or fli4l.
It's cheaper than this and probably more versatile too. You can even get Gigabit ethernet on the WAN port if you wish

 

[fUzZ bUnNy]

The linksys stated above does have a 100 Mbit WAN to it.

 

[ps2cho]

you do not need a 100mbps WAN port unless you are running some real top notch connection like an OC48 or T3. For security go with a CISCO product. Linksys, D-Link and the major "known" companies will not be what you are looking for in security.

 

[Flamed_Chip]

A Linksys would be fine for this job. No point going overboard, as has already been said the Linksys above does have a 100Mbit WAN port.

 

[klingens]

For security go with a CISCO product. Linksys, D-Link and the major "known" companies will not be what you are looking for in security.

The funny thing is, that Linksys is a "Cisco" of sorts

 

[Brad84cnc]

Are you allowed to hook up a router to your connection there? Here at the University of Florida if you use a router on your port you get in trouble and i think they turn off your access. But I never decided to test that.

 

[Flamed_Chip]

They shouldn't be able to tell your behind a router unless they physically see it, but then again at my Uni your only supposed to connect 1 device to the LAN ports and I have a switch with 3 boxes on it and have done for a while and no one has said anything.

 

[Brad84cnc]

I didnt think they could. But, I didnt want to test it seeing as I used up my first warning and I didnt want to be without internet for 3 days