2-wire BT Wireless Gateway equivalent

[Sponge34]

Hi,

At work here we have a 2-wire wireless gateway as supplied by BT for one of the adsl lines. It is a quirky box, to say the least, however it has a great feature where it will NAT some internal devices behind its external IP address and, at the same time, allocate 'real world' IPs to others

I was wondering if any retail style routers offered the same sort of facility? The 2-wire device is locked to BT... I know one can get hacked boxes on fleabay but I would rather go with a proper retail box.

S.

[linker3000]

The 'hacking' of 2-wires depends on their age - on the older ones you can reflash them with third party firmware (optional), but the old and new ones can also be prised away from BT by adding 2-3 entries in the router's DNS table so the 'hack' isn't too drastic.

You can do MultiNAT/No-NAT with the Speedtouch models, but that requires some keying at the telnet interface (Google is your friend). The setup you want is very easy through the Web interface on the Draytek 26xx/28xx models and the former can be had on ebay for around £40 up.

Not sure how easy NoNAT is with Netgear, Linksys etc. as I don't use them, but no doubt others can advise...

[Sponge34]

ah - I had a Speedtouch 510v3 back when I started out on ADSL... so I will think about getting one of the new ones.

Thanks