Re: ADSL Modem : router or switch,Wireless or wired
From: Dave (nospam_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 08/29/05
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Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:13:57 +0100
ehabaziz2001@gmail.com wrote:
> -I need to be adviced of good ADSL Modem(vendor/Model)that works fast
> and good with electicity shutdown .
> -Still I have question about Wireless ADSDL Modems with Solaris Are
> they working ?
> -How can I configure ADSL Modem with Solaris 8?
> -Which is better with Soilaris or even at general :
>
> -ADSL router (1 port) + swtich ( 4 ports)
> -ADSL router (4 ports)
>
> Which is beeter for future network extend ?
>
I'm very impressed with a Intertex IX66 modem/router/firewall, but there
is no wireless on mine. I prefer it that way myself, although they do
one with wireless. I would prefer to have that sepparate, so you can
upgrade that separately. I have no switch either. For that I use a 3COM
16 way one. I think you will soon find 4 ways is too limited.
The IX66 does not need a computer to operate it, so is independent of
the OS, unlike most of the cheap ones, that use USB and need a PC
running Windoze to operate. Also, the cheap ones use your PCs CPU for
computing, so slowing your PC. That does not happen with the IX66, as it
has its own DSP chip. But with the speed of modern PCs, I doubt that is
such an issue now.
The IX66 has a USB port, but I have never used it. I just put telephoone
in, and take two ethernet ports out, which I configure to be on
different subnets. One is a DMZ, so there is no way a machine on the DMZ
can access one on the private LAN.
Support is very good too
http://ix66.techarena.org/forum/
I have tried a US Robotics router/firewall (not ADSL modem) and was most
unimpressed. There is a very limited amount of firewall rules you can
have, and when I found that port 21 (or was it 23?) was open all the
time, their support was useless and could not help me resolve it. So I
wrote that off as a waste of money (not much I might add) and went out
and bought the more expenssive IX66 router/firewall (no modem).
The IX66's are not cheap, but are useful if you don't want to keep a
Windoze PC on all the time.
Mine seems pretty good with power loss. I have it on a large (6kW) UPS,
but that can only hold up my network (quad processor Ultra 80, SPARC 20
as web server, WiFi, ...) for 45 minutes. We get a lot of power cuts,
being in a rural area with overhead cables, but the modem seems to come
back up fine and the web server opperates. That said, I know when I last
patched the web server it had been up for over 100 days, so perhaps the
mains has not been too bad of late.
http://www.southminster-branch-line.org.uk/
http://www.drkirkby.co.uk/
and a few others are hosted on that. But of course with 256 kbit/s
upsteam in the UK, it is not suitable for hosting a large web site. I
used to host
on it, but that was impractical, as there are lots of large files on there.
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