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“What do I think of the Vigor 2600. Well, to be honest,...”

written by Snoop. on 29/11/2002

Good Points
It's a breeze to setup, excellent configuration interface, excellent features, DHCP, VPN, 4 10/100 ports, status monitor, Statefull Firewall, blah blah.. and looks good too.

Bad Points
Technically speaking, I can't think of any. If Vigor dropped the price by about £30 there would be no other choice really.

General Comments
What do I think of the Vigor 2600. Well, to be honest, nothing. Because after the first 5 minutes it took to take it out of the box, plug in the power cable and the ADSL line and finally the PC's into the 4 LAN ports I never really had to think about it again. The 2600 came to life, lights flashing and I was surfing the internet at never seen before at home speeds! It's been up for months now, always on, always connected and I've never had to think about it. At the moment it buried somewhere under my joystick and some crips packets.
Whenever I have had to configure the 2600 for opening ports or port forwarding, etc - it's a breeze with the intutive web interface.
Also its seems to be pretty secure. Its got a Stateful firewall which is supposed to br a lot better than a standard packet filter firewall but I'm not entirely sure what that is and how it works but it's on by default I think so I'm not that bothered.
You can get cheaper products. But whether they can be forgotten about 5 minutes after setting up I don't know. You can with the 2600 though.