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| Thread ID: 28494 | 2002-12-21 06:50:00 | Router Comparsion | ~~~~~ s y ~~~~~ (2054) | Press F1 |
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| 107951 | 2002-12-21 06:50:00 | Hello, Merry Christmas, As you might know, I am in the process of purchasing and installing Telecom Xtra's Jetstream Starter 5000 pack. In order to do this, I am wishing to purchase a ADSL router. -(By the way, please don't tell me to go to DSE, I've had enough trouble with them... cancelling my Alcatel order due to overload of anger, etc. Anyway, that's another business that has kept me angry and busy for the last 2 1/2 weeks) So, now I am looking at another two, D-Link DSL500 or the Asus . D-Link is selling for $259+GST, Asus for $205+GST. Which one is better value for money? What difference (major, can't do without) differences is their in ease of use... additional networking (internet sharing), etc? Please share your opinions with honesty, ;-) Thanks, |
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| 107952 | 2002-12-21 07:02:00 | Has nobody have any idea, are they bad because they're unpopular, any comments, all welcome, please see also my "How sad... help" thread. Many thanks, |
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| 107953 | 2002-12-21 07:06:00 | I use the Asus 6000EV - works fine (especially with the latest firmware), supports pinholing and has built in support for Netmeeting, but otherwise doesn't support VPN. | wuppo (41) | ||
| 107954 | 2002-12-21 07:17:00 | Sorry, I'm talking about the Asus 6000EV by the way... wuppo, did it come with all four cables: one for power, console, telephone jack, and network card? Did you need to purchase anything other than filter and this? |
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| 107955 | 2002-12-21 07:19:00 | Sorry again, also, is VPN so... important? | ~~~~~ s y ~~~~~ (2054) | ||
| 107956 | 2002-12-21 07:25:00 | RE: 6000EV From memory, it came with the power adaptor and 'telecom' cable. So you would need to arrange suitable filter / splitters and an ethernet cable (it has a 'reversing' switch so you can use either striaght through or reverse wired ethernet cable). You don't need a serial cable (telnet) as there has been a web interface for several recent firmware versions. You can telnet via the ethernet connection also. |
wuppo (41) | ||
| 107957 | 2002-12-21 07:39:00 | VPN may be necessary if you wanted to connect to a company network or suchlike. For general internet browsing, it isn't a consideration. It's just you often see routers for sale because someone bought one then found it didn't have the features they needed for a specific requirement. | wuppo (41) | ||
| 107958 | 2002-12-21 08:47:00 | What is the procedure for connecting 2 or more computers to the 6000EV? Thanks in anticipation. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 107959 | 2002-12-21 08:54:00 | As there is only one ethernet socket, you need a hub / switch to wire more than one PC. The router acts as a DHCP server, so the PC's can be set for DHCP (or you can manually set IPs if you wish [ especially if you are going to use specific port forwarding to a PC]). You then set the 'gateway' address in the PC's to that of the router (default is 192.168.1.1) and away they go. | wuppo (41) | ||
| 107960 | 2002-12-21 08:55:00 | The router would attach to the same LAN, via a hub? Same as most ethernet routers, they just become a LAN connected device. |
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