Edited by author 07-16-2002 06:50 AM
 I installed a similar D-Link non-wireless unit in a friend's place in America over the winter -- pretty well plug-and-forget, and it worked perfectly with an iMac, a PowerBook and my little Sony subnotebook all running at the same time. It also comsumes a lot less power than a complete PC or even a laptop, and it has no hard drive or fan or other rotating devices to wear out. To add to the party the software is in ROM and not open-source, so attacks on the firewall are not going to be easy -- in fact I haven't heard of one at all.

 The place I'm living in right now has a PC connected to the ADSL modem doing roughly what Charlie is currently set up with, but it's causing us all sorts of grief with HTTP timeouts and such. I'm severely tempted to just go out and get one of these routers and say "Here, try this."