consumer site to site vpn?

[bigpimpboy14]

hey all...

a family member has a small store with a DSL connection. a few workstations and a windows server 2k3. she also has a small network at home with a few computers and printers. what hardware would anyone recommend to create a vpn between the two networks? she'd like more than a vpn client on a computer, but be able to have a true vpn between the two networks.

can anyone help point me in the right direction?

PS: this is a minimal budget project.

thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide!

 

[Kins123]

How about a router with the capability of a VPN tunnel? Netgear ProSafe or something...

 

[bigpimpboy14]

Thanks Kins.

I ended up going with three Netgear FVS114 routers. They work beautifully and it's exactly what I intended. Highly recommended for anyone trying to set up a site-to-site (or in my case, site-to-site-to-site) VPN... and only $72 each from CDW. Not bad at all.

 

[D_Pipa]

Netgear is the best company for the starters and medium experienced people

 

[Kins123]

Glad it's all working

 

[Persian89]

Was it NetGear that stole GPL licensed code?

 

[wirega56]

^ might be good to start your own thread on that

 

[Corny]

Was it NetGear that stole GPL licensed code?

that was linksys. and because of that they now have a lot open-firmware routers

 

[techboywi]

Netgear is the best company for the starters and medium experienced people

I never cared for Netgear equipment...at least not their comsumer grade equipment. I had a router from them that would freeze up all the time & randomly forget how to do DHCP

that was linksys. and because of that they now have a lot open-firmware routers

Thats what I run now.. A LinkSys with OpenWRT... Best Thing Ever!

 

[Kins123]

I never cared for Netgear equipment...at least not their comsumer grade equipment. I had a router from them that would freeze up all the time & randomly forget how to do DHCP



Thats what I run now.. A LinkSys with OpenWRT... Best Thing Ever!

I find it interesting how everyones experiences are different. I had the opposite to you, my Netgear equipment is rock solid and have no problems at all.

I had a Linksys WLAN card in my Dell and was getting major problems with drivers etc. It just wouldn't let me stream media from the server. Plug a Netgear in and it worked.