D&C Lug - Home Page
Devon & Cornwall Linux Users' Group

[ Date Index ][ Thread Index ]
[ <= Previous by date / thread ] [ Next by date / thread => ]

Re: [LUG] Line noise vs broadband



-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Neil Williams wrote:
> On Saturday 08 Feb 2003 8:49 pm, Ray Smith wrote:
>
> Exactly. What I want from broadband is independence - by using
RADSL I know I
> can plug a combo modem/router directly into the line and run
the rest of the
> LAN off it using TCP/IP.

It is still a box running all the time, whatever the approach
you either need N times hardware (i.e. N modems, N ISDN cards)
or a box that converts into something else and N times that
something else (i.e. Ethernet).

Home highway comes with 2 ISDN ports and 2 phone ports.

I have friends running ISDN routers off home highway boxes, they
tyically support simple packet filtering/forwarding and NAT -
hey some even run Linux.

You probably have better choice in ISDN routers than ADSL, but
the starting price is usually higher because ISDN is a bastard
of a standard (as all Scott Adams fans know!).

ISDN routers sometimes offer extra telephone functionality, so
you can plug in more faxes, phones, and answerphones, and do
clever stuff with them - something I've not missed especially
although my homehighway box bristles with far too many BT 2 for
1 adaptors and weird plug-ins, and sometimes I forget which
lines are shared how.

Of course I'd be loathed to invest in an ISDN router if
broadband were at all vaguely possible in the near future.

 Simon
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQE+Rm1IGFXfHI9FVgYRAhZHAJ9t+/sjvIYMqtDGfSXn4cUFC8HN/QCdHc1V
2SBsF6nS2svqe5EW+1Gp4DA=
=KyPq
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--
The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG
Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the
message body to unsubscribe.


Lynx friendly