Helping out a friend who has DSL though qwest at his small office (one of the business offerings - not residential).<br><br>We're trying to achieve 3 things:<br><br>1) get something more stable than the actiontec modem (fried a couple in the last year or so, dropped connections etc..).
<br>2) wireless and vpn access<br>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)<br><br>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.
<br><br>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. <br><br>Any suggestions? <br><br>
Money's not a problem for this project (within reason) as long as the stuff works!<br><br>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 :)
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