Re: 10mbit fiber to home; NAT router can't fill pipe
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Re: 10mbit fiber to home; NAT router can't fill pipe

From: Somebody. <somebody.@nospam.russdoucet.com>
Date: Mon Mar 13 2006 - 02:07:41 CET

"C Kim" <cameron.kim@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Though the fortigate are decent boxes, their cost is probably going to
> put you out of the ball park.
>
> I think a good bet would be to take a look at smoothwall or astaro.
> These are simple linux install on an old pc (think boot cd, simple
> graphic config, manage by http). They should be able to handle the
> throughput.

A FG to suit the need would be sub-$1000, which may well be out of some
folks ballpark.
Received on Mon May 1 00:56:33 2006