[Gllug] Cheap DSL Routers

[John Edwards]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 12:59:47PM -0000, Axel Segebrecht wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm looking for a cheap DSL router (with ethernet port).
> If you can recommend any I'd be grateful :)
> 
> MTIA,
> Axel
> 
> ---
> http://axel.gardeneden.net/

No positive recomendations yet as I still looking, but I can say 
a lot of bad things about the Alcatel SpeedTouch Pro (now on sale 
for only 138 from DSL Source).


I needed a router that can route a subnet, and have the same IP 
address on both the DSL and ethernet router (like the Efficent 
SpeedStream 5681 that BT uses).

Alcatel's marketing say that the SpeedTouch Pro should work but it 
just locks up hard when you set the IP addresses. Their technical 
support people say it does not. In the end we had to use PPTP from 
another machine on the same ethernet segment to trigger the PPP link 
over ATM and then pass the traffic over that.

The way you set it's IP address is to send it a "magic ping" to it's 
MAC address (all of these routers have the same MAC address at boot) 
and it configures itself based on that. Only seems to work when using 
a Windows machine though.


The Alcatel Pro may be OK if you are willing to change your network 
to the way it does things, but I can't recomend it.


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