Yes, I bought more than I needed to get a home router that wouldn't "wear out" after a few months of HEAVY p2p file sharing. After some research, having heard only favorable reports about the quality of the Zyxel line in general and the ZyWALL 5 specifically, I secured a used ZyWALL 5 for ~US$70.
As is my habit, I secured all available documents and upgrade f/w from the mfr (no upgrades installed).
[That command line interface manual looks intimidating!] No plug-in WiFi card installed, no back-up telco modem attached.
A basic Internet access via Ethernet setup was performed using the browser interface: DHCP from ISP, Google's DNSs used, ASUS RT-N10+ setup in wifi access-point-only mode on Zywall LAN2.
Easy-peasy. Web surfing access works great. Even my 3rd party VPN service (no Zywall setup required) is good.
Utorrent mostly works well, except sometimes. I have NOT been able to master the port forwarding setup here due to the robust (read generous) set of features therein. From the bits that have gotten through the skull (not NET trained) I gather I have to create a firewall rule between the WAN and LAN1 (my PC).
Here is where some well-experienced, under-appreciated (yes, unpaid) assistance would be gladly accepted.
I am familiar with the PFconf.com (?) site that has port forwarding help for many Zyxel "internet security appliances", but nary a word on ZyWalls!
I intend to offer them links to the ZyWall documents, as well as any positive results garneres here!
TIA (Sorry for the brevity :), but I needed to show I made an effort.)
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