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| Thread ID: 28494 | 2002-12-21 06:50:00 | Router Comparsion | ~~~~~ s y ~~~~~ (2054) | Press F1 |
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| 107961 | 2002-12-21 09:02:00 | Absolutely, the router is just another device on the lan, as are the PCs - so 2 PCs and a router take 3 sockets from the hub / switch. | wuppo (41) | ||
| 107962 | 2002-12-21 09:18:00 | Thanks wuppo. The 6000EV sounds interesting as regards the Netmeeting capability. NM uses such a wide range of dynamically assigned ports that pin-holeing wouldnt appear to be an option. | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 107963 | 2002-12-21 10:19:00 | Any ideas with the D-Link? Many thanks, |
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| 107964 | 2002-12-22 01:05:00 | Is the D-Link unpopular, or is it just... me been unlucky to find someone who owns one. Which one would you guys suggest? (BTW, I need to be able to use all internet stuffs such as Netmeeting, etc. |
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| 107965 | 2002-12-22 05:59:00 | I think you will have to do a bit of research sy. I'm in the same position as you with ADSL coming to the area soon. I think if you have a hardware firewall such as provided by a router with NAT addressing, then using programs like Netmeeting is going to be difficult. Have a look at what Microsoft says: support.microsoft.com The critical sentence is the one that says the firewall must be configured to "Pass through secondary UDP connections on dynamically assigned ports 1024-65535." A software firewall can do this, but a router most probably cannot be configured to do this without removing the firewall capability. Presumably then, a software firewall would need to be started up for Netmeeting. Wuppo says the Asus modem can be configured for Netmeeting, so this needs looking into more. You may need to be patient getting replies at this busy time of the year, sy. :) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 107966 | 2002-12-22 08:09:00 | Thanks for that Terry, didn't find anything about that... cheers ;-) | ~~~~~ s y ~~~~~ (2054) | ||
| 107967 | 2002-12-23 09:23:00 | sy, it may be worth while looking at the Dynalink RTA210 ADSL router. They say these programs are supported: NetMeeting, CuSeeMe, Real Player, mIRC, ICQ, Quake, FTP, Telnet, X-Windows, Web, FTP or Mail servers. Info. is here: www.dynalink.co.nz Does anyone have anything to say about this router? |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 107968 | 2002-12-23 09:31:00 | ICQ is supported by the Dynalink but not totally. If you want to transfer files between each other you need to set pinholes and you need to do this manually for each port and with ICQ there are many to use/abuse. We gave up on file transfers with ICQ thru the Dynalink and now one guy uses a ASDL modem and I use my router when we need to. This only works one way though. |
Big John (551) | ||
| 107969 | 2002-12-23 09:38:00 | Thanks BJ, it sure is difficult trying to find out which would be the best all-round ADSL solution. Cheers |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 107970 | 2002-12-23 10:02:00 | I think the nicest way would be to have an external router/modem which allows you to easily allow all ports and protocols through if you want. Then you could have that connect to a firewall box which then connects to the switch and other computers to the switch. The other thing is that the Alacatel StingRay USB modems work well with Smoothwall (http://www.smoothwall.org) apparently. |
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