home network nirvana

Anyone know of such a device?

Given that standalone gigabit routers are cheap, as are 802.11g and draft-N routers, why bother jamming them into one box? It's a simple matter to use a short ethernet cable from one to the other to bridge their switches together. That and you get the added bonus of putting heavy gigE traffic devices onto their own switch and not have it intrude on the rest of the network. I did this with my Media Center PC, 2 Tivos (using 100baseT of course) and a fileserver and it GREATLY improved the Tivo-to-PC transfer times.

I could see a few situations where it might see desirable, but not enough to justify the added cost and likely decrease in flexibility.

=Bill Kearney

I would agree with Bill here.

Beside, when it comes time to replace a certain portion you can retain the other bits that are still functioning.

TBerk

~ > I would love to find a single device that provides: ~ > Wireless Access Point ~ > Gigabit Router ~ > Easy VPN access - preferrably web based like the SSL VPN Client ~ ~ > Easy VPN access - preferrably web based like the SSL VPN Client for WebVPN from cisco ~ ~ Anyone know of such a device?

If you're good with 10/100BaseT rather than GigE, and don't mind the price tags, our

Aaron

from cisco

I agree - I think an 851W is in my future...