Hey Cheyenne thanks for the input. I am looking for a router to connect my network to a dial up circuit. I moved to a brand new neighborhood that does not have DSL or Cable but they are building it out in the coming months although I can't get a damn time line out of them. Using a router to connect the house is much better than building a server or using Windows ICS. It provides firewall capabilities outside of Windows and handles DHCP much better than ICS, in my opinion ICS sucks ass. Many now have built in SPI and a host of VPN options.

So I am looking around because I saw a thread (not here) about a kid who wants to hook his x-box up to dial up when the x-box has no serial port and some dude posts the SMC router with a DB9 dial out port for a router. So my head goes ding ding ding, I'll get one of those! And when the cable system comes up I'll just hook the modem in and then I'll have redundant internet connections! Mean time I just pop the box in and have instant network wide internet access.

So I am looking at all these things on the internet and thought that maybe someone here at AO has one they think is the greatest. Opinions definitely count. Also I thought there would be interest to those who have DSL at work and want to build in some backup. DSL does go down periodically and if there was a dialup backup through the already configured router on a different ISP, that would be cake. Here is the latest, some or wireless becayse I started
looking at those as well since 80211.g support WPA and more secure implementaiton of WEP...

check out all the models that support dialup in this matrix - the fun is, serial ports used to cost a lot Cisco router always had them but now they are dirt cheap.
http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?sec=Pro...-Matrix&site=c

http://www.netgear.com/products/deta...114P.asp?view=

http://www.compusa.com/products/prod...F9FA801B83E17F

I was looking at those sites just now....