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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Neil Williams wrote: > On Saturday 08 Feb 2003 8:49 pm, Ray Smith wrote: > > Exactly. What I want from broadband is independence - by using RADSL I know I > can plug a combo modem/router directly into the line and run the rest of the > LAN off it using TCP/IP. It is still a box running all the time, whatever the approach you either need N times hardware (i.e. N modems, N ISDN cards) or a box that converts into something else and N times that something else (i.e. Ethernet). Home highway comes with 2 ISDN ports and 2 phone ports. I have friends running ISDN routers off home highway boxes, they tyically support simple packet filtering/forwarding and NAT - hey some even run Linux. You probably have better choice in ISDN routers than ADSL, but the starting price is usually higher because ISDN is a bastard of a standard (as all Scott Adams fans know!). ISDN routers sometimes offer extra telephone functionality, so you can plug in more faxes, phones, and answerphones, and do clever stuff with them - something I've not missed especially although my homehighway box bristles with far too many BT 2 for 1 adaptors and weird plug-ins, and sometimes I forget which lines are shared how. Of course I'd be loathed to invest in an ISDN router if broadband were at all vaguely possible in the near future. Simon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+Rm1IGFXfHI9FVgYRAhZHAJ9t+/sjvIYMqtDGfSXn4cUFC8HN/QCdHc1V 2SBsF6nS2svqe5EW+1Gp4DA= =KyPq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.