On Wednesday 21 July 2004 23:22, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
I've actually not had any problems with my Frog; seems to work just fine and have less issues than I've heard of people having with their ADSL routers...
Yup using a frog too (Ian that's a less than flattering name for the first generation of the Alcatel modems, if you see one you'll know why)
But to be honest the only reason I've kept mine is that after the pain and suffering I went through with earlier versions of SuSE to get it running I feel I deserve to get some life out of it. Admittedly it is far easer to get these things working on a recent distro.
I much prefer the routers however, The port forwarding/NAT gives you another layer of protection, Your connection is not dependant on one machine to be running and in the case of a laptop user the whole wireless thing is a lot easier to accomplish.
It's interesting to hear your (and Adam's) views and experiences with buggy routers.
i have sold/used a wide range (from the very cheapest to the quite expensive Dlink DSL-604+ we have in the office) and apart from one obviously faulty unit and a Linksys that refused to play with GRE (now fixed in firmware I believe) we have had little or no problems.
Sounds like we have been lucky so far.