Re: Router reccomendation please...!

[Joseph Heenan <joseph-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <dr4pvl+ll26@xxxxxxx>
"noel_pilot" <HA@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I already have a Netgear wireless cable router which is great however
> I want another router that is capable of Port Mapping.  This is called
> many different things it seems but I want the router to be able to
> take an incoming request on port 55 say, and map it to port 80 to a
> specific ip address.
>
> This will then allow me to access multiple devices all requiring the
> same port, i.e. port 80.
>
> I know my airport express can do this but I need something nice and
cheap!
>
> Any reccomendations..??  Doesn't even have to be new to be honest,
> anything considered altho my experience with belkin has been pretty
> shocking so linksys, netgear, d link, buffalo etc etc or any others
> that are good and CHEAP!!

The linksys WRT54GS is good, and can be picked up off amazon around
50 ukp usually. I'm not sure if the default firmware does what you
require, but there'll certainly be a replacement that does. (The
router is linux based, which means it's easy to do custom firmware
for it. Don't go for a WRT54G though, which might not be linux based
these days.)

Joseph

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