[Wolves] Setting up ADSL modem/router

Wayne Morris wayne at machx.co.uk
Mon May 17 14:16:22 BST 2004


On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 12:55, Jayne Heger wrote:
> HIya,
>  
> I am actually getting ADSL on Tuesday, yay!, and have ordered an
> ethernet modem/router combo, with 4 ports, 
> Its the Netgear ADSL modem router DG 834 which was only £62 at Amazon.
> Anyway, I can find no resources on the web which guide you through
> setting one up, maybe I am panicking uneccessarily, but I want to be
> prepared. :-)
> My setup is this,
> mail server, running Fetchmail, sendmail, leafnode, squid, with
> IPtables, yes I know in heinseight I could have just gone for an ADSL
> modem, but they all appear to be USB ones which I didn't want.
>  
> Can any of you point me to a few good websites or offer any advice,
> that would be much appreciated.
> Want to try and make the meeting this week, haven't seen you guys in
> ages, I've missed you, *sniff* :-)
>  
> JayneI got one of those, throw it away! I ended up buying a Belkin
> because the Netgear is a very very nice router, prob better
than the Belkin in many ways - but won't let you do Port Translation whereas the Belkin will!

Anyway the Netgear has a very nice wizzard that will have you up and running in no time.

Any q's ring me and I will fire up mine to compare.

Regards

Wayne






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