[sclug] ADSL Diary Part 2

[tim]

See below for the first part. 

Day 11 _ Still Waiting 

Day 12 - Finaly a guy in an old beat up white van turned up with my adsl router and micro filters.
Or so I thought. - The Linksys Etherfast part no. BEFSR81 is nothing to do with ADSL - despite being told that it does.
So Day 13 - Go an buy an ADSL Modem - The Billion BIPAC-711. ?99. This has built in firewall, VPN support, DHCP server, NAT and some other bits.
Once I used the right IP address from Zen it connected up fine.
I couldn't run it through my IPCOP firewall though. And I don't seem to be able to use the BIPAC Virual Server feature to allow access to my Web Server. So still working on that.
In Summary I am very pleased with ADSL - should have done it earlier. (There is a cool radio station called LaunchCast that just plays music you like - so I have that running continually. 
The next thing to try is Voice over AOL Instant Messenger


So thats it for the mo. 
I haven't forgotten the offer of a port scan Mark, but I am not happy with the set up yet.
I want to use a double firewall with a DMZ for my Web Server.  


Hope that is of any help to anyone. 









Dear all, in case you are interested here is a diary of my installation of ADSL. Have thought about it for a long time, the adsl that is not the diary and finally went for it. 

Going to use the adsl to enable ease of joint development with a guy in london. So the idea is

VPN to create a WAN/LAN between us
private webserver
mailserver
will probably try playing Everquest as well  

Day 1 17/09/2002
Ordered ADSL connection from Zen Internet.
Used Zen because according to adslguide.org they were one of the best with a good track record. Also
	They give you 8 ip addresses. Which after mandatory allocations still leaves you with multiple static ip addresses.
	You can cancel the contract and they will refund you some cash
	If the price drops, you will get the benefit
	They provide a backup dialup account (This can only be used when your ADSL connection is down)
	They helpdesk guy was actually helpfull
	I like the name - sorry
Day 3 19th
BT guy arrives to check phone line. First socket he checks db is over 60 so he says sorry can't have adsl arrrrrggggghhhh. I ask fhim to check another socket.
He says it probably won't make any difference, you are too far from the exchange. Checks 2nd socket 55db - I can have adsl pppphheew.
The db bit is apparently caused by white noise on the line, as technology gets better there will be less and adsl will spread further out. Also he said its not a case
that I will get a lesser service than someone with 20db, it is either ok or its not ! Not sure about this. 
Day 7 23/09/2002
Finally decided which modem to go for. Went for the Linksys Etherfast part no. BEFSR81. Mainly because it was cheap (?65). (By the way I found ACTION now Insight a lot cheaper than DABS). Also bought 2 splitters ?4.99 each and an extra ethernet card for the ipcop machine 3com ?26 not the cheapest but I like 3com NIC cards. Paid an extra ?1 for next day delivery
Day 8 24/09/2002
Informed by Zen that the ADSL was active
Splitters and NIC card arrive. Modem does not (from a different warehouse and a different courier)
Day 9 Hassle Insight. told that courier did not know where my house was(guess they don't have internet access - streetmap), so will deliver tomorrow. Got refund of ?1 though had to be on phone for 30mins :-)( - Its the principle
Day 10 still waiting

Watch out for the next thrilling installment  zzzz zzzz zzzzz. 

Hope this of use/interest

Tim

Tim Holmes
tim at holmes.name
07881 784876 
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