<html><head></head><body>I'd be looking at a router that supports an free software firmware, like DD-WRT. You'd have to do a bit of research with regards to the compatibility of the routers that are available to you. Be careful about hardware revisions. I bought an Asus RT-N12 because it was in the supported hardware list, only to discover that my revision (D1) was not (yet) supported. FWIW it's a great router even on stock firmware, but it needs a separate ADSL modem.<br> -- <br> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 January 2016 09:05:02 GMT+02:00, Matthew French <matthew@gillyweed.co.za> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 7:33 AM, Anton May <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:antonmay@gmail.com" target="_blank">antonmay@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>If you are looking for a decent router, then a Netgear is a good option. If you are looking for stabillity and worth every penny, maybe a Mikrotik, but that is a bit of an overkill.</div><div><br /></div><div>D-Link are still good routers, so I would suggest get another D-Link router. User friendly and easy to setup.</div></div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>Since this is an Ubuntu forum, I feel it would be appropriate to also suggest the option of buying an ADSL modem and hooking it up to your Ubuntu firewall... :-)</div><div><br /></div><div>But to be honest I think it is hard to buy a bad ADSL router these days. They all seem to be chock full of features you will never need, and can do what you will need more than adequately.</div><div><br /></div><div>If it helps, I have an 11 year old Netgear which is still going strong. I only recently retired it because it doesn't support ADSL2 or WPA2. Sadly I have been told the newer Netgear products aren't as robust. Ask me in 11 years which are today's reliable brands... :-(</div><div><br /></div><div>Finally, just to make the case for running a firewall from your home server - if you have one:</div><div>1. Even old PC's tend to have much faster processors than little routers, and so will be more responsive.</div><div>2. PC's have hard drives, so you can run squid and cache all those updates.</div><div>3. Linux (or BSD) distros receive patches more quickly and transparently than proprietary routers.</div><div>4. PC based routers are a lot more flexible, for example: allowing you to install packages that show network traffic. Or configure Upside-Down-Ternet (<a href="http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html">http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html</a>)</div><div><br /></div><div>For bonus points you can run the firewall in a virtual machine so you don't have to expose the rest of the server to the outside world.</div><div><br /></div><div>Of course the downside is it requires quite a bit of knowledge about networking and will take some fiddling to get right. I obviously wouldn't recommend this for the average home user. But it is a nice project for an enthusiast.</div><div><br /></div><div>- Matthew</div><div><br /></div></div></div></div> <p style="margin-top: 2.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; border-bottom: 1px solid #000"></p><pre class="k9mail">-- <br />ubuntu-za mailing list<br />ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com<br /><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>