John, I've been running an old qwest Cisco 678 for a few years now that I got from ebay and it has served my needs quite well. Its been EOL for quite some time now. Cisco's new version is the 800 series. 857 and 877. I know a few people running the 875 and have really liked it. -Adam John Meier wrote: > Helping out a friend who has DSL though qwest at his small office (one > of the business offerings - not residential). > > We're trying to achieve 3 things: > > 1) get something more stable than the actiontec modem (fried a couple > in the last year or so, dropped connections etc..). > 2) wireless and vpn access > 3) off site backups of one of the LAN computers (windows box which > acts as a "fileserver" as well as a day-to-day workstation) > > I don't have all the details of his connection - and I've never had a > DSL connection :) - just cable modem... Anyway, it seems Qwest's > modem options are an actiontec 701 and a Qwest 2wire 2700HG - the > latter having wireless built in. I suggested trying out the 2wire > modem - but he's kinda sick of qwest and the "crappy equipment" he's > been getting. > > At this point we're looking for a modem, firewall, wireless and vpn > endpoint all-in-one unit that we can use with Qwest DSL - we'll be > using linux, OSX and windows over the VPN. > > Any suggestions? > > Money's not a problem for this project (within reason) as long as the > stuff works! > > He doesn't like keeping any computers up and running at full power > over night, so I'm hoping for an all-in-one unit to do the firewall, > modem and VPN . I'll be using linux, VPN and Wake on Lan to backup > the windows "file server". He'll be using OSX and VPN and Wake on LAN > for remote access - sure hope wake on lan works like I've been > reading :) > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >