Hi Techno

As you well know.....There are many ways to carve a pumpkin. You have some great ideas too and I agree with you, the most expensive solution is not always the best. The solutions I recommend, Sonic Wall and Netgear are typically affordable by most end-users. The Check Point Firewall technology (sofa@ware) & (safe@office) are a bit more pricy and offer a robust VPN function. We support the SMB market and had very impressive results from our customer base with no "known" intrusions and numerous "known" intrusions.

I hope this helped.

Top of the evening to you all!

DarkCarniv0l