On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Cesare' A. Ramos <cra...@idfllc.com> wrote: > Anyone know of a solution for a small business or branch office that can > serve as a switch, firewall, and wireless.
SOHO router running DD-WRT. (Those $50, 5-port routers are actually a lightly-managed switch (VLANs); the "Internet" port is just a different VLAN internally. Speed within the switch is usually fair to good. Wireless speed and reliability is usually fair to bad. Performance across the firewall is good enough for most connections. Features vary, but you get a lot for $50 and free firmware. Would I run a business on this? Depends on the business. I'd sooner use one of these than one with stock firmware. I'd put a small office, e.g., handful of users on one, if they didn't need anything special. Would I run a 100 person company on one? No.) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
