Re: [eug-lug]near Eugene DSL questions

[Brad Davidson]

I've visited a friend who has one of these, it's NAT is about the worst 
I've seen of any of the modem/firewall devices I've seen on the market. 
It was having a hard time handling any more than 2 of us doing an 
in-game server scan at once. It would just start dropping connections a 
bit into the scan, like it was running out of space in the NAT tables. 
Netgear had a problem like that shortly after Half-Life came out, but 
they managed to fix it fairly quickly. That was ~5 years ago IIRC, sad 
to see that Actiontech is having that problem today. Get yourself an 
external modem and a 486/p90/etc running linux, you'll be better off in 
the long run.

-Brad

T. Joseph Carter wrote:
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:42:39PM -0800, Patrick R. Wade wrote:

My fellow worker Jay recently got QWest DSL via EFN, and got the Actiontec
device; he's been pretty happy with it.  It can do what you're describing,
simple firewalling and routing, and has slots to add PCCard wireless cards 
as well.


Too bad it only works with Actiontec 802.11b cards.  They cost more than
several 802.11g routers do at this point.
The firewall feature is generally no crappier than I have come to expect
from most network appliance router/firewalls, but the average free UNIX
variant provides a lot more power and control.  
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