Hi chaps.
I'm looking at getting a better adsl model/router for work.
At the moment, we have a cheap Netgear 834GT which works fine, but I now need to be able to do port mapping which it doesn't seem capable of. In other words, I need to have a port forwarding rule where something on the WAN at port 1234 gets routed to internal IP a.b.c.d but on port 5678. The Netgear doesn't offer this.
At home, I have an old Linksys WRT54G v1 or v2 or something on which I can put DD-WRT or Tomato (thanks for the recommendation - fantastic firmware) but all the newer Linksys have newer CPUs which don't support 3rd party firmwares.
Cost isn't too much an issue - it's for work, but of course would rather spend £50-100 than £200-500.
Also, ideally we'd need quite a few ports on the internal LAN side, so I guess it might be better getting just a router that's good at routing (but doesn't need to have loads of RJ45 ports) and a separate 16 port switch or something.
Wireless would be useful, only needs to be 11g/54Mbps. No real need for draft n or stuff like that.
Above all, needs to be reliable as there will be a few servers on the inside which will be exposed to the outside and used frequently so can't afford something that crashes / reboots on its own or needs rebooting every other day. And of course needs to have a reliable and decent SPI firewall or something of the like (and no, I'm not going to buy a Cisco PIX or something like that!)
So, what do you think?
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) but all the newer Linksys have newer CPUs which don't support 3rd party firmwares.
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but nothing about all (which?) configuration options! Grrr 
