Benny Goemans wrote:
Hi,
I'm switching from cable to ADSL in a month and I was wondering what (kind of) modem I should best go for. Would it best be one that connects to a NIC or to USB. I'm now using a (console) NAT & proxy server, with which I should be certain it works. For this, I would like to have some possibility to automatically dial at boot time (or if the modem takes care of that, even better).
Should someone be using an ADSL modem on this kind of connection, would it be
possible to tell some more about it?
In the US, most providers use a modem with a dual interface. The one
that I'm using is a Westell provided (aka I purchased) with my BellSouth
ADSL service. It has both USB and Ethernet interfaces and is configured
to do PPPoE for the connection. Since I already had a wired network in
place, I passed on configuring a single machine to talk to it and bought
a cheap ethernet to ethernet router, the Linksys BEFSR41. I could have
setup one of the old 200MHz boxes stacked in the corner to do the same,
but I was under some time constraints and for ~$35USD it was up and
running. (When the client is your wife, there are always additional
pressures,.... and rewards....)
John
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Consulting, Design, & Development of Networks & Software
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