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[HughGardner]

Hi, I'm taking the jump from completley wired to wired and WiFi. My wife just bought a Nook. Want a router with a good firewall ( I like the idea of having another layer of defense). Maybe all routers play well with VFC, however I would be interested in your experiences with routers. Any recommendations? I've been looking at the Lynksys E4200. Thanks, Hugh

[VistaFirewallControl]

We do not think a router choice should be W7FC dependent.
Typically any router (starting from very cheap onces) provides with the basic functionality + a lot of feature you will hardly be used at once. So the choice is the choice of actually required features (if any).
Otherwise the choice reduces to the model choice of your favorite brand.
Almost any world known manufacture produces the entire models set. Linksys is just the most famous (and so expensive) manufacture
From W7FC point any uPnP compatible (*) router would be fine.

In our humble opinion the in-focus (budget determinative) features are
- LAN speed (100mb, 1gb etc). The choice depends on the other network participants and upgrade perspectives. Unfortunately even if all the PCs in the LAN support 1GB network and router is 1GB as well you should not expect real 1GB transfer rate, the practical value is mush more lower….
- WiFi speed (specification). The router’s WiFi speed should not be “worse” than the WiFi client.
But (how it could be without buts) you should not expect practical 300mb rate from 802.11N, for instance. 300mb is just an upper reachable value
- Exterior design

(*) If you are going to exploit the W7FC’s Port Forwarding feature. Otherwise there is no compatibility dependencies at all. We have not heard about a modern router that does not support uPnP Port Forwarding.
So almost any modern router is uPnP Port Forwarding compatible