Helping out a friend who has DSL though qwest at his small office (one of
the business offerings - not residential).

We're trying to achieve 3 things:

1) get something more stable than the actiontec modem (fried a couple in the
last year or so, dropped connections etc..).
2) wireless and vpn access
3) off site backups of one of the LAN computers (windows box which acts as a
"fileserver" as well as a day-to-day workstation)

I don't have all the details of his connection - and I've never had a DSL
connection :) - just cable modem...  Anyway, it seems Qwest's modem options
are an actiontec 701 and a Qwest 2wire 2700HG - the latter having wireless
built in.  I suggested trying out the 2wire modem - but he's kinda sick of
qwest and the "crappy equipment" he's been getting.

At this point we're looking for a modem, firewall, wireless and vpn endpoint
all-in-one unit that we can use with Qwest DSL - we'll be using linux, OSX
and windows over the VPN.

Any suggestions?

Money's not a problem for this project (within reason) as long as the stuff
works!

He doesn't like keeping any computers up and running at full power over
night, so I'm hoping for an all-in-one unit to do the firewall, modem and
VPN .  I'll be using linux, VPN and Wake on Lan to backup the windows "file
server".  He'll be using OSX and VPN and Wake on LAN for remote access -
sure hope wake on lan works like I've been reading  :)
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