bb router recommendations

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Greetings:

A quick review of our network goes as follows...

1 ADSL line 3 Mbps down, 640Kbps up
1 Speedstream 5667 DSL modem
1 SMC Barricade 7004VWBR Wireless Broadband router/NAT (wireless disabled, newest BIOS)
1 Smartlink 5 port switch
3 Servers:
1 W2K Server Edition internet server for web, email, ftp, etc
2 internal servers for testing (running Linux)
3 Workstations - 1 W2K Pro, 1 Win98SE, 1 WinXP -- none of which really need to talk to each other all that much, but need to share the internet connection

LAYOUT:
Internet/DSL
|
Speedstream Modem
|
SMC Barricade --> 3 servers
|
Switch -- Workstation 1
-- Workstation 2
-- Workstation 3

Quick question: our SMC Barricade router keeps going down. All of a sudden it will just up and stop routing internet traffic. it will still behave as a switch/hub, but all internet traffic is lost. as is the ability to reach the unit using web browser to configure, nor is it possible to ping the device.

This is a small business configuration with the internet server actually serving our website and email and all i want is a fairly low cost, STABLE router/NAT. We need the nat as there are a few workstations sharing the internet connection as well as allowing the device to send incoming requests to the Internet server. The SMC appears to be a perfect blend for this job, but the frigging thing won't stay up for more than a few days at a time.

Does anyone have any advice as to what to move to in terms of a decent NAT router and/or a better configuration all-around (other than not using DSL!!)

regards,
yt
 
I've had great success with the linksys BEFW11S4 (4 port wireless ap router)
both at home and at work. I've also used the BEFSR11 & BEFSR41 (1 port & 4
port non wireless routers) with much success. They will all do port
forwarding and www.practicallynetworked.com tested the linksys models a few
years ago and they can handle about 4.5 Mbps on the WAN side. In a small
business environment (approx 40 to 50 users), I had only 1 problem unit (out
of 6 I have installed) and it was a problem only in that it had the same
problem yours does, but it only crapped out once every 6 months.

Greetings:

A quick review of our network goes as follows...

1 ADSL line 3 Mbps down, 640Kbps up
1 Speedstream 5667 DSL modem
1 SMC Barricade 7004VWBR Wireless Broadband router/NAT (wireless disabled,
newest BIOS)
1 Smartlink 5 port switch
3 Servers:
1 W2K Server Edition internet server for web, email, ftp, etc
2 internal servers for testing (running Linux)
3 Workstations - 1 W2K Pro, 1 Win98SE, 1 WinXP -- none of which really need
to talk to each other all that much, but need to share the internet
connection

LAYOUT:
Internet/DSL
|
Speedstream Modem
|
SMC Barricade --> 3 servers
|
Switch -- Workstation 1
-- Workstation 2
-- Workstation 3

Quick question: our SMC Barricade router keeps going down. All of a sudden
it will just up and stop routing internet traffic. it will still behave as a
switch/hub, but all internet traffic is lost. as is the ability to reach the
unit using web browser to configure, nor is it possible to ping the device.

This is a small business configuration with the internet server actually
serving our website and email and all i want is a fairly low cost, STABLE
router/NAT. We need the nat as there are a few workstations sharing the
internet connection as well as allowing the device to send incoming requests
to the Internet server. The SMC appears to be a perfect blend for this job,
but the frigging thing won't stay up for more than a few days at a time.

Does anyone have any advice as to what to move to in terms of a decent NAT
router and/or a better configuration all-around (other than not using DSL!!)

regards,
yt
 
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