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Thanks AndreiV for the clarification!

AndreiV, thanks so much for your quick reply. I will be sure to enable the DOS defense as you suggested. I'm by no means a networking professional, so please bear with me if these questions are not particularly technically astute: Is the purpose of the filter settings more or less to "tweak"...

I've recently bought a Draytek 2925 router and am in the process of setting it up. In the firewall section of the control panel, I don't see any of the usual options as far as security. In my old router, there is the option to select from "Low Security" "Typical Security" "High Security"...

Yes, the technician definately stated PPTP. I've looked at the specs of more than 30 ethernet routers in the past few days. All of the them support PPPoE, PPTP, L2TP, Static IP, Dynamic IP, or BigPond Cable. None of them support PPPOA. I took this matter up with the technician and he said...

I currently access the internet via a PPPoA ADSL POTS Annex A connection and am considering purchasing my own router. The router would sit behind the modem-router from the ISP, and the modem-router from the ISP would be used in bridge mode. After speaking with a technician from the ISP, it...

I was hoping that might be the case, however, I've seen posts on my ISP's forum where other users have set their PPPoA connection as a PPPoE connection in their router, which has resulted in very unstable connection speeds. Thanks for the link to the post at plus.net (6 pages!) -- it will make...

Degrub, thanks for the reply! Do you mean setting up a VPN or similar where I would want remote access to files on the computer? No. The connection is just for browsing/typical internet use. Are there any security issues that arise when using a double NAT setup? My search for a better...

I'm not very versed in networking and need some advice on exactly what type of equipment I'm looking for. I live in Austria and my internet connection is PPPoA ADSL over POTS (Annex A). Access is via a modem-router (ADB vv2220) This isn't much of a device as far as security and other features...