Six ADSL firewall routers tested

Specifications

Product Allied Telesyn AR440S D-Link DSL-300G/ D-Link DFL-700 Dynalink RTA770
Company Allied Telesyn International D-Link Australia Pty Ltd Askey Australia
Phone 1800 228 595 1300 766 868 1800 653 962
Web Site www.alliedtelesyn.com.au www.dlink.com.au www.dynalink.com.au
Price (inc GST) AU$907.50 AU$999.95 AU$199
Warranty 2 years 1 year 1 year
Ethernet LAN 5-port 10/100Mbps can be used as LAN or DMZ 1-port 10/100Base-TX 4-port 10/100 Mbps
Other Ports (USB, Serial) 1 x Async. serial, 1 x PIC expansion bay WAN port (10/100), DMZ port (10/100) and serial console port USB
URL/ Content Filtering URL filtering performed using Firewall HTTP proxy Yes No
Bandwidth management LLQ, PQ, WRR, DWRR, PQ with WRR/DWRR, 802.1P, IP TOS, IP DSCP, RSVP Yes No
DoS protection A stateful inspection firewall provides protection against SYN and FIN flooding, ping of death, smurf attacks and port scans. Yes No
VPN server Yes Yes Pass-through only
Encryption standards supported DES, 3DES, AES AES, 3DES, DES, CAST128, Blowfish and Twofish NA
Target market Home, SoHo, enterprise, service provider SME SOHO

Product Linksys WAG54G Netgear DG834 Nortel Contivity 251
Company Cisco-Linksys Netgear Nortel
Phone 1800 678 808 1800 502 061 02 8870 5000
Web Site www.linksys.com.au www.netgear.com.au www.nortel.com
Price (inc GST) AU$249 AU$169 AU$775
Warranty 3 years 3 years 1 year
Ethernet LAN 4-port 10/100Mbps 4-port 10/100Mbps 4-port 10/100 Mbps
Other Ports (USB, Serial) None ~ RS232, DB-9f
URL/ Content Filtering Yes Yes Blocks ActiveX, Java applets, and cookies, and disables Web proxies so that network administrators can tailor remote site access policies to be consistent with rest of enterprise.
Bandwidth management Yes   No
DoS protection Yes Yes Stateful packet inspection, attack logging and e-mail alerts
VPN server Yes Pass-through only Yes
Encryption standards supported DES, 3DES NA DES, 3DES, AES
Target market ADSL users after a fully featured wireless home gateway for their home or small business network. Home & SME Enterprise

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    Way to compare Commodore's or ...Anonymous -- 07/04/05

    Way to compare Commodore's or a Falcon's with a Porsche ZDNet.

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