On 31-Jan-10 20:11:23, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
On Sun, January 31, 2010 7:59 pm, James Freer wrote:
Some of you have said that a BT router works ok and some have said ditch it and buy one.
Perhaps you could be kind enough explain technically [but simply for the less knowledgeable!] what exactly is wrong with a wired BT Voyager.
For the average home user? Probably nothing, or very little. On the other hand, I need my router to be able to do port forwarding and QoS. I use it's VPN functions so that I can have a UK IP address regardless of where I am in the world and I have some VPN tunnels that make managing a set of servers rather easier than it might otherwise be. I make a small piece of bandwidth available to any driveby wireless user, but I lock down what they can have access to. All on my router.
Without commenting on the tunneling etc. (which I don't get involved with), I'd like to say that, as a result of a (long defunct) period with BT Broadband (which got excruciating because all their dynamic IP addresses got on a blacklist used by just about every academic institution in the UK) I was using a BT Voyager 205. I found this to be a very capable little unit (and it had Linux software in it, so you could telnet and ftp at it), and highly configurable within its range of capabilities. I kept using it for some years after I migrated to Zen.
Also, there are (still extant) "hacker" pages for it on the web:
http://corz.org/comms/hardware/router/bt.voyager.205_router.how-to.php "Hacking at the BT Voyager 205 adsl router modem"
http://corz.org/comms/hardware/router/205_admin_pages.php "Voyager 205 secret admin pages"
I think the 205 is now superseded, and cannot be bought (also I no longer use it myself ... ). But it was a nive little thing!
Ted.
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