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    I need a router that does the following things...

    I have been killing myself for the last couple of weeks trying to find a router that does a few simple things, but every router I try has just one stupid shortcoming that makes it useless.

    This is what I need... I'm looking for a G router that handles:

    Fixed IP assignment.
    Port (range) forwarding.
    TRAFFIC logging with the option to email logs on a set schedule

    Everything I try fails at one of those, and usually, it's the logging. I had a netgear 814, but the log would empty itself all the time and the email function (though present) didn't work. I tried a WRT54G (stock firmware) but it didn't have fixed IP mapping, the log only stored IP addresses, and it had no emailing function. I tried a "level one" router, which had fixed IP, port forwarding, a log, and a working email function, but lo and behold, the log wasn't a TRAFFIC log... it was a useless "random router activity and meaningless bullcrap" log. I then tried the WRT54G with DD-WRT firmware, but with my luck, it ended up that I had a v5 WRT54G, so I could only use DD-WRT micro, which means.... you guessed it... no logging.


    I really..... reeeally don't want to go through the process of setting up my entire network again only to find out that the router has some stupid flaw, so if anyone could point me to an option that you are 100% sure has all of the above requirements (and that they work ) then I would be eternally grateful.

    (P.S. btw, I'm looking for an affordable consumer option, not some tricked out commercial router)

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