[ILUG] Re: [OT] more DSL

[Niall O Broin]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 09:20:54AM +0100, Vincent Cunniffe wrote:

> Their top-end, ?200+ per month service comes with (or at any
> rate did up until last week and a poke from ODTR) a mandatory

Apparently up until last week the top-end service was the only one where
Eircom WOULD countenance your using something other than their equipment. I
know Paul Kelly (he of the £30 ADSL card) has this service and was able to
use his own equipment, and he had ADSL installed before last Friday.


> and very expensive 4-port daisy-chainable SpeedTouch Pro from
> Alcatel, which will do everything with an ADSL connection
> short of making coffee. It bridges, it routes, it does
> firewalling, port forwarding, DHCP, DNS, you name it.
> 
> Eircom refuse to support this piece of equipment in any way
> whatsoever other than idiot bridged mode, which renders it
> functionally identical to the £30 ADSL card someone mentioned
> in a discussion last night, or to the far cheaper USB model.

So does this mean then that no ADSL router will work in anything other than
idiot bridged mode ? In which case there's hardly any point buying anything
other than the £30 ADSL card, if your not going to be able to use is
advanced functionality. I was going to buy a router, because then I'd have
NAT etc. done in a nice little box and wouldn't have to worry into the
future about breaking things with kernel changes but it seems that that's
not going to be an option.



Niall