routers

[lwguy]

Hi

weve been through several routers by linksys and all three over that last
year have broken in some form or other, plus they dont seem to support msn
messenger. are there any suggestions for a replacement vpn/router/firewall
that will support all web applications?

thanks
Sam

[YKhan]

lwguy wrote: Hi weve been through several routers by linksys and all three over that
last year have broken in some form or other, plus they dont seem to
support msn messenger. are there any suggestions for a replacement
vpn/router/firewall that will support all web applications?

I assume that when you say support's MSN Messenger that you have
trouble sending and receiving files with it?

Most of the newer routers support something called UP'n'P (Universal
Plug'n'Play). That's just a fancy name for a router that communicates
with the Windows XP computers behind it and opens up ports
automatically depending on need, and doesn't require configuring rules
by hand inside the router.

This may help with your MSN problems, but sometimes there's just no
solution to some of these problems because your routers put your home
computers inside a private IP network when what the program really
wants is a public IP network.

Now as for why they called this thing Universal PnP rather than Network
PnP or Firewall PnP which are more descriptive, I don't know.

Yousuf Khan