Given that standalone gigabit routers are cheap, as are 802.11g and draft-N
routers, why bother jamming them into one box? It's a simple matter to use
a short ethernet cable from one to the other to bridge their switches
together. That and you get the added bonus of putting heavy gigE traffic
devices onto their own switch and not have it intrude on the rest of the
network. I did this with my Media Center PC, 2 Tivos (using 100baseT of
course) and a fileserver and it GREATLY improved the Tivo-to-PC transfer
times.

I could see a few situations where it might see desirable, but not enough to
justify the added cost and likely decrease in flexibility.

=Bill Kearney


"Jason" <jason.vargas@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I would love to find a single device that provides:
> Wireless Access Point
> Gigabit Router
> Easy VPN access - preferrably web based like the SSL VPN Client