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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: melott on March 02, 2005, 03:35:25 PM
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WaaHooo :-D HiSpeed DSL is finally available in my area.
I don't know how I'll deal with going from 33k to 768k :-)
I'll need to set up a router for 2 Amiga's and 2 PC's.
I have an XSerf card for 1 of the Amiga's (need another).
Any suggestions/advice here is welcome.
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Who are you with BT or Blueyonder?
I am with Blueyonder and use a D-Link DL 604 for 3 PC`s and my Amiga 1200, I have to say the Internet is faster than I expected using AWeb and IBrowse. on 768K
Mike.
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I don't know how I'll deal with going from 33k to 768k
You'll wonder why you ever bothered to use POTS dialup at all, ever, and you'll swear to never go back to POTS dialup
Then when you are forced to use POTS at someone else's location, you'll get really really annoyed. Information Highway rage
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@swift240
Judging by the "Merritt, Mich.", I'd be inclined to say neither... ;-)
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Provided your on a Cable network, the Linksys BEFSR42 is a great little Router. Works well with the NTL network.
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I'm using a Netgear DG834G Wireles ADSL Router which has a 4 port switch built in. Fantastic features (saveable settings, firewall, website block, keyword block, etc...), and good price :-D
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I've had good luck with the Linksys and Netgear models (I'm on my 3rd Netgear I went from standard Ethernet to 802.11b to 802.11g).
BTW, only 768K?. I'm spoiled by my 5M download speed.
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My Linksys router works amazingly well, i have flashed the firmware in it and I get very high speeds through my network. I recently transfered 25gb of data in about 50 mins (iirc) so im pretty pleased with that :-D
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I'm on my third router in as many years. First was a Linksys that was weird at times and died, and I used to have a Linksys switch that died as well. Second was a Dlink which never was flaky itself but the power supply went bad last week, which still worked enough to ping and access the admin stuff from the LAN, but could not successfully get DHCP from the cablemodem server. I've now got a NetGear that works well.
I'd buy another Dlink, and am so far happy with the NetGear (which was on sale when I went shopping to replace the Dlink), but I don't know if I'll buy Linksys again.
Though with any brand, I recommend against stacking, as it seems they are designed to pile up within the same brand. There's enough heat generated in these things that I think that's why the Linksys died, it got pretty warm even without my switch stacked with it. If I had them stacked, the linksys units acted flaky. I'd like to see them redo the case design with better cooling considerations.
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I stiiiill like 2wire (http://2wire.com/)'s HomePortal line... However, you might actually find the Linksysen easier, depending whether you're trying to bring the Amigas or PCs up first, and whether or not said Amigas have DHCP support.
(2wire's advantage is in the plug'n'play aspect, but that kind of falls down if you can't take full advantage of it; in turn, generic Linksysen and so on make the 'what you're actually doing' more obvious, at the cost of confusion over IP itself, and perhaps a greater risk of bugs, though that was more of a concern in 2000 than now. As the post above notes, the software in even the 'generic' ones is now getting quite featureful and advanced...)
You may want to spite Netgear if you don't like the look of this. (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/)
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I have a strange problem with my d-link DI-624
This is a very nice router...but traceroute on the amiga-side doesen't work. (I only get the IP of the Router)
I use Netinfo 2.11 (registered)
On my PC traceroute works ok
I also have a SMC Barricade and with this one traceroute works also on the amiga.
Is there a way to come around this problem. (I really like to use the d-link)
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I have a NetGear FVS318 (http://www.netgear.com/products/details/FVS318.php) wired 8-port router/switch. I also have a LinkSys WAP54G (http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?prid=608&scid=35) wireless access point. They both work very well!
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bloodline wrote:
I'm using a Netgear DG834G Wireles ADSL Router which has a 4 port switch built in. Fantastic features (saveable settings, firewall, website block, keyword block, etc...), and good price :-D
I too am using that router for an Amiga, a PowerMac, a PC, and the wireless for a laptop, and it all works like a charm with my wireless broadband here in Dublin :-D
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Ah, I seem to have already replied to this older thread, removing dupe...
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bloodline wrote:
I'm using a Netgear DG834G Wireles ADSL Router which has a 4 port switch built in. Fantastic features (saveable settings, firewall, website block, keyword block, etc...), and good price :-D
Yup, I've had one of these for the last couple of weeks.
Absolute doddle to set up, although you should check Netgears website for updated firmware, as mine was about 3-4 revisions behind and had a few wireless problems before I updated it. :pissed:
The built in 10/100 switch is nice too, since my Amigas no longer slow down the PC-iBook transfers like they did with my old hub :-)
The wireless seems pretty solid, I spent all day in the garden with my iBook surfing and coding..
If only we had an Amiga laptop :-(
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Most ADSL modems provide routing functionality; I only had to go out and buy a new $AUS40 8 port switch (with 10/100 autoswitching!) - now I find the single Ethernet port on my modem no longer worries me :)
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mattabat wrote:
Most ADSL modems provide routing functionality; I only had to go out and buy a new $AUS40 8 port switch (with 10/100 autoswitching!) - now I find the single Ethernet port on my modem no longer worries me :)
'Most' don't, but some do... and it cuts a few ways. For instance, SBC-Yahoo (last I checked) still ships a straight Efficient Networks bridge for their PPPoE service, with the 2Wire products offered as a paid option (how I heard about that brand in the first place)... Qwest, I've discovered, run PPPoA on the wire, and are shipping an Actiontec modem-router to make that type of provisioning useful* -- which, unfortunately, has some bizarre quirks** in the present firmware that makes setting up a software PPPoE client (or a third-party router) seem like a walk in the park.
*I hope I have those details right; I gather DSL is 'always' based around ATM on the wire, but what matters is the type of framing expected at the endpoints. Anyone familiar with Qwest want to correct me on that -- if the thing is normally run as a PPPoA client, but has the option to work in the bridged mode I'd usually use to run 'software' PPP on a known-PPPoE link, what the heck would that give out the Ethernet side, PPPoAoE?
**For being a combo device, there's a bug that appears to manage to hose DNS traffic running through it under an 'interesting,' if somewhat common set of circumstances. I'm not sure if this relates to something trying to be a transparent proxy, or just a glitch in Linux/IP[Chains?|Tables?] and the way their device uses it, but I've reported a reproducible scenario to them, so maybe Qwest customers will be able to use Firefox on platforms that've heard of IPv6 shortly. :-?