Safecom SAMR 4110 adsl 1 port modem router

I was looking for a cheap router that I could set up a home network with and this Safecom SAMR 4110 seemed to fit the bill, plugged into my network and onto the phone line and voila - 5 PC's with internet access. Unfortunately the firewall is known to be "buggy" this is from the Safecom tech support people, they do provide a fix which isn't difficult to apply. Unfortunately I've encountered problems with it loosing the ADSL connection randomly (re-booting the device normally sorts it out) and more recently it's corrupted it's internal firmware, not once, but twice this month. Not too much of a problem, except the fix requires me to plug the device into a DOS based PC with USB devices. Hang on! DOS died not long after Windows 95 and USB compatability was only introduced with Windows98 SE! I've got DOS boot disks but the utility is too large for a floppy, if I put it on a CD..... anyway, it's a pain. Safecom assure me that there's no way for this to happen yet it blatently has. There are better products available for similar amounts of money

The Safecom SAMR 4110 works as a modem and a router, so you the phone line goes straight to it and then to the pcs. The SAMR 4110 has two links. One is an USB cable, another is an ethernet cable. So you can plug the USB into the USB port in your pc, and the other into the network card in your PC (If you don't think you've got one they're also called Network Interface Cards and can be bought cheaply from all pc shops) or even plug it into a games console for online gaming, wich is great. After you install the modem on your pc you can get online with one PC/games console without turning the other on, so it's great. You'll need a filter/microfilter too. You'll plug the filter into the phone line, then you'll connect a phone line and the modem router to the filter and then the pcs to the modem router. It's also quite simle to install. This is a great valued router where you shouldn't have to pay more than £30 (type in SAMR 4110 on google and it'll be one of the first to come up). It'll work on any broadband connection including virgin and will definintely get your PS2/Xbox online. Great stuff!