I would suggest that you look at the ubiquity edgerouter lite. 3 ports, 1
Wan, 2 lan, and a management port. Capable of a good amount of traffic. And
it gets you all sorts of business class features for a good price. Then you
can do wifi however you like. It's about 130 and will go on sale for down
to 95. I use one happily connecting it to a switch and from there to my
wifi servers etc.

On Sat, Oct 26, 2019, 12:17 PM <techlists@phpcoderusa.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It appears I am having Internet router problems.  Occasionally I will not
> be able to access the Internet for a few seconds to a minute or so.  This
> morning I was not able to access the Internet at all.
>
> I am with Cox and have a home office business account.  I called Cox and
> they suggested bypassing my router and connect directly to their modem.
> That worked.  Based on that I think my router is going bad.
>
> I had turned off the modem and the router for a maybe an hour or so while
> I did other things.  I now have access.
>
> I would like a secure router.  Cox says almost any modern router will be
> secure.  Security is a big issue.  When I look at all the WiFi that is
> available in my neighborhood I see maybe 10 routers.  That is scary!
>
> Since I have a business account that allows servers I have been using port
> forwarding.  I am a programmer and occasionally I fire up my laptop turned
> server for testing.
>
> I also have set up my WiFi to only accept those devices that I have
> configured by MAC address.
>
> Any toughs on my pending router purchase?
>
> Thank you so much for all your feedback!!
>
> Keith
>
>
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