[dcxman]

Morning all!

I'm in the market to purchase a switched router. I was looking recently at the Cisco 1604R ENET 4 port router switch. I just need to set up a 3 class room (computer lab) environment using NAT. Will this do the job? I have been only using NT servers and Linsys Routers thus far to Route IP, so I'm not sure how easy the GUI will be to get used to for a Cisco router. I just want something easy to implement with security.

If this is not a good choice, I would much appreciate a recommendation.

Thanx in advance.

[ViperZ2000]

Unsure about the Cisco, but the Linksys BEFSR41/81 are both nice. Easy to configure settings via browser, have port forwarding, routing, and DHCP server capabilities. By the way, they are both switches as well (41 is a 4 port ....81 is the 8 port).

We are using the BEFSR41 for about 600 remote users coming in over some form of Broadband, and together with Norton AV Corp (or any good AV solution), they seem to keep the PC's protected.