Horia  Freshman Member

I tested the recommendation of PeterUK and it worked fine! Thank you again for your fast reply! I found in the end also the page in the "handbook" of USG40, where it is described also a very similar solution. I post it here below for anybody interested at, in the future! I tested my ZyWall USG40 with a page called mxtools…

cool! thanks a lot, PeterUK! I'll test it and revert here, but it seems to be exactly the point that I was looking for... :)

Hello Charlie! Thanks a lot for your reply! Yes, I did in the meantime what you said (modem TG588v in bridge mode). The DDNS was already configured, since a while. But I did not put the modem in bridge mode, as I considered that putting the USG40 in the DMZ of the modem (in MU mode) would be enough. It could be that this…

@parnassus: thank you for all the details! Yes, indeed, there are two different generations of that product... it is important to know, as otherwise when you buy them online you won't observe too easy the difference!

@ChristianG @Mark Thank you for your kind help and recommendations!

@ChristianG thank you for the link to the austrian distributors! This is really incredible! I searched for this kind of page on zyxel.com, zyxel.de (or over google directly) and did not find anything but a page that was saying "if you want to have a local distributor, write us, and we will send you a list" (or similar). I…

Dear Mark, thank you for your reply! However, I really tried various channels (as I wrote above) and there was absolutely NO answer, for now two weeks. This is not what one expects from a customer pre-sale support! :) For example: I looked for resellers in Austria, and the Zyxel website does not mention any, but offers me…

@ChristianG thanks a lot for the details regarding bridge modem with firewall as a router! Yes, I know this possibility in the meantime. The use of the modem (bridge, single user, or normal) depends if we will have some other thigs connected there, like digital TV. I incline in to buy the USG40W.

@DennizOlof thanks a lot for your kind and extended recommendations! Yes, indeed, I also observed the passive cooling (I heard the old ones had very noisy fans). But it is good to know about the speed, and especially about the setup. If it became simpler or more logical, it is a good reason to buy the new series.…

a big thank you to PARNASSUS and CHRISTIAN G. for your higly valuable comments and inputs! They help me a lot! @parnassus I wasn't aware there are two versions of the USG20W (with and without -VPN in the name). I will be atttentive about that... @ChristianG yes, the austrian modem is supporting the "bridge" mode. I will…

Sorry, but I have to bother you with another (hopefully last) question: for a Nebula cloud-managed version firewall, ZyXel NSG50-ZZ0101F, do i need any software license? I could not understand this, after reading the info at Zyxel and on the reseller's site. I would think of buying that one (in case I can manage the WLAN…

Hello Charlie, thank you very much for your detailed answer! for the USG40 hardware, am I correct that I would need the version "ZYXEL USG40W-EU0102F" in order to have the UTM licence included? In case I would like to buy an IDP-license separately (only IDP, no anti-virus etc.) and a licence for VPN access (as far as it is…