[NTLUG:Discuss] OT- What DSL router do you recommend?

[Rick Matthews]

> What DSL router do you recommend?

I use an old piece of hardware out of the closet running a downloaded
copy of Linux.  I threw in two $10 nics, splurged on a $60 eight port
switch and I'm in high cotton.

My "old piece of hardware" was a 486/66 for a couple of years, and
it never broke a sweat while firewalling and masquerading for the
handful of simultaneous users that I could throw at it, and we 
were successfully saturating my DSL bandwidth. Don't try to run
X! :)

I later "moved up" to a newer "old piece of hardware" (P200) so that 
I could add some functionality to the box.

There were no inexpensive routers when I put this thing together,
so I didn't really have a lot of choices.  On the other hand,
One of my objectives was to learn and have hands-on experience
with Linux.

For what it's worth...
Rick




> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org]On
> Behalf Of Wayne Dahl
> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 11:47 AM
> To: NTLUG
> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] OT- What DSL router do you recommend?
> 
> 
> Ok, I've about had it.  I now have a second defunct LinkSys ADSL
> router.  Both lasted just about a year.  The first one cost me around
> $180 (back when they were fairly new), the last one cost me $90.  Both
> were 4 port 10/100 BaseT routers.  Because LinkSys seems to have a 
> problem with quality, I have decided not to buy another LinkSys router. 
> The first one went into a diagnostic mode and would not come out of it. 
> A call to LinkSys was useless, the said it was dead and there was
> nothing they could do with it.  I bought another one because I already
> had the software installed to use it and it went out last night/this
> morning sometime.  I always have problems with the modem and router
> losing sync anyway, and when I went into the room they're in to reset
> them, the router showed a dianostic light and no link light.  Tests
> connecting computers directly to the modem showed the problem with the
> router.  I've tried using different cat5 cables from router to modem,
> still no link light.  It appears that the WAN port is dead because the
> router still works for the local network and there is nothing I can find
> in the software to attempt a reset of the WAN port itself.
> 
> What suggestions do you guys on the list have for me?
> 
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