Re: Looking For a Router

Also, check the TOS from his ISP. Some are very nice and will not care
about his planned setup, only about the total bandwidth. Others will
jump up and down about depriving them of additional accounts ($$$),
getting more actual usage out of the account then their theoretical
average user they based their pricing on... Even for "Business Class"
accounts.

I have even read about Cell Phone based internet customers finding out
their "Unlimited Use" account was really "Unlimited until you get to
400MB per day."

What marketing gives away in the big print, the lawyers strangle in the
fine print.

There is a whole other discussion about if an ISP can detect how many
PCs are behind a NAT router/firewall and can/should be able to charge by
that.

Roger Vicker, CCP

On 5/14/2007 9:27 AM, Mike wrote:

I was just thinking about that. I'll have to see what the cost would be.

On 5/14/07, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Mike wrote:

Does anyone know of a consumer-level router that allows you to create

two

separate networks that can't communicate to each other? My dad provides
internet for his renters and we would like to hinder the possibility of
hacking and viruses in his computers from his renters.

How about just using two (or more) cheap routers (RAIR?) ... one router
would be the main router ... directly connected to the broadband
connection. Another router would be connected to the main router, and
get it's IP via DHCP (from the main router). That would create multiple
separate networks (even if they use the same IP space).

Your dad's renters could opt to use direct connection to the router
(with a software firewall) or get their own routers.

david


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