>Using your old Mac as a router is a bad idea. When you can find dedicated >routers complete with two ethernet ports for as low as $30*, it makes no >sense at all (economic, performance, or otherwise) to use a dedicated >Mac. You can use that IIsi as a nifty web server. > >I am using a LCIII+ with Webstar. It can saturate my DSL line! > >Uh, to keep things on topic, your 2400 will make a very fine server when >you replace it with the iceBook. > >Mike Friese > >* A router I bought for $30 was the D-Link DI-704, a total piece of $#|+. >It came equipped from the factory with a ROM version that did not allow >you to log on as administrator. When you can't log on, you can't even >flash to a higher version. Once a got a replacement with a newer rom, I >found the throughput was only about 250 Kbps, not very useful for DSL. >But it is probably as fast as a IIsi running ipNetRouter.
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