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On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 19:41, Michael Chidley wrote:
On Friday 14 November 2003 7:40 pm, Neil Williams wrote:
On Friday 14 Nov 2003 7:04 pm, Michael Chidley wrote:
Hi,
Does anybody know what is the difference between an `ADSL Bridge` and an `ADSL Router`?
The ADSL is irrelevant to the difference, it works the same with ISDN etc.
(I may have all this wrong, but I think this is how it works) Basically it's more intelligent bandwidth allocations. A router doesn't do any more work than a hub as far as sharing bandwidth within the local network. A bridge is more akin to a switch which ensures that each machine gets the full bandwidth available. A hub sends packets to all machines, whereas a switch knows which machines don't need to be bothered with which packets.
Hmm...Thanks Neil....The reason I was asking was because I am getting ADSL on the 26/11 and have been reading the HOWTOs....but they are going right over my head.... The ISP has sent me this info below (some bits changed!) and I have installed a ADSL Router and NIC in my computer.
_______________________________________________________ Username: myusername@xxxxxxxxxxxx Password: password
Protocol: PPP/VC (sometimes called: PPPoA or PPP over ATM) VPI=0 VCI=38 Encapsulation method: VCMUX Modulation method: G.DMT
Primary DNS Server: 194.106.56.6 Secondary DNS Server: 194.106.33.42
___________________________________________________________
If somebody could give me an idoits guide what to do........
Mike
What asdl router did you buy?
if this has ethernet port then no config of the pc is needed, if DHCP is available on the router?
Darren
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