[Sussex] router woes

[Steve Dobson]

Geoff / Gareth
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:30:15PM +0000, Geoffrey Teale wrote:
> I too have a rather elderly Alacatel/Thomson Speedtouch 510 router -
> mine seems to interact badly with my switch (lights flashing madly on
> both boxes is usually the sign) - which tends to require me to power
> cycle the switch and the router :=(

Me be worried - I have one of those.  Been working fine for 15 months
now - non-stop, but one never knows.
 
> On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 12:22 +0000, Gareth Ablett wrote:
> > So I've decided to give up completely on it and get a new one, I don't
> > know of any good ones on the market but I need either a combo
> > router/modem or separate router and modem, I would like one that would
> > be easy enough to setup multiple IP's.
> > 
> > As an extra I would like 802.11g or b but its not needed.

I put a little in a Netgear DG834G for a client.  They had a very 
small office and just wanted a better Internet connection for their
two PCs.  The Netgear when in like a dream.  Supported 802.11g & b
which I tested with both - my laptop is b (Atmel), their wireless is
g.

I have to say that the Netgear was a doddle to set up.  All I had
to do was set the username and password for their ISP, everthing 
else was set up for a simple small office or the average home.
DABS were doing one with a free PC Card tww for £95.

Don't know about setting it up as a router with a real DMZ (I assume
that is how you are going to configure you extra IP addresses).
The Speedtouch 510 is fine in that mode, that is how I use it.

Steve