[Gllug] Recommend an ADSL modem?

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On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, David Damerell stated:
> On Wednesday, 21 Jan 2004, Doug Winter wrote:
>>The actual router was the uber cheap (well 35 quid) dabs one with the
>>Conexant chipset, as previously recommended on here by someone else:
> 
> I hear (rumour only) that the NAT on these does not work well, but I
> take the approach that the router should do as little as possible and
> be connected to a real computer up all the time, so I've never tried
> it on mine.

In my experience (in the brief time period before I got bridging
working):

- the NAT works, but the `virtual server' pages (that let you
  do port forwarding) are very wobbly and mostly fail to have any
  effect whatever

- if the line drops, the thing won't pick it up again.

Luckily this is workable around. The NAT, well, I worked around it by
using half-bridging mode :)

The line-drop-you're-dead problem I had to work around, 'cos my ISP
drops the line every twelve hours in the expectation that the router
will pick it up again. So I've written a terribly ugly perl script which
pings the other end of the line every so often and reboots the router
when necessary (using exponential backoff to try less and less often if
reboots fail). It seems to work: it kept the line up while I was away
from home for two weeks. :)

-- 
`note to the crown prosecution service: Machine guns dont have a
 'stun' setting.' --- mjw
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