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Originally Posted by Bill C
I gave up on Commercial routers and built one of these. Much better at handling large downloads from any of the main P2P type programme's and it uses MRTG so you can track how much you have downloaded through the cable modem.
http://ipcop.org/
http://ipcop.org/index.php?module=pn...CopScreenshots
The main points are that it uses 10/100 lan cards so is more than capable of handling anything that Virgin throws at it for now.
Any old pc will do from a 386 to a pent 4. When it is up and running no keyboard , mouse, monitor are needed. |
nice post Bill.
and heres one of many cases you could put one of these in
http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/prod...ode=CAH-MCE-SI
it would be nice if i could also find a ready made liveCD with NAS and 2x1Gigabit basic bonding included.
if he's going to buy any non cheap commercial router today its probably better to get a 1Gig router anyway to allow growth later.