Have an old machine that laying around in your closet gathering dust. You can make that machine into route. whats the difference between store bought router and a home made router. A route sold in the stores were design to make networking simple to consumers and you can't really make own. When you make your own router you can take more control of your network. Advantage of making your own router You can cap bandwidth for users You can block unwanted applications from updating from the web You can setup a proxy server You can restrict user from downloading executes, torrents, P2P without modifying there own computer settings You can setup an IDS system You can monitor users by IP address, username, or hostname You can setup (DMZ) demilitarized zone I know this may look hard and confusing, but later on during the day I show you how to setup a more complex network.
“The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.” – Bill Gates