On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 05:26 +0800, Marvin Pascual wrote: > My question was, if the ISP (SmartBro) also provides a > router device for their subscribers. If there is, can > we change it with an ordinary Linksys router?
Ok, that's what I thought you probably meant. I'm with steven. the smartbro setup I saw basically left you with a network cable that you then connected to your computer. As with grace, clearly you could then connect that network cable to a router and share the connection. but that's about it. you'd still have that internal IP. smart bro (like all residential broadband ISPs I've ever seen in the philippines although I'd be happy to be contradicted with counter examples) doesn't provide routers because the terms of service actually say that the service is to be used by only one computer. if they were to provide a router they'd be contradicting those terms. i'm with PLDT DSL right now and the modem has several lan female jacks. but only one can be used at a time, the one that works is determined by which protocol or service is configured for use. trying to *change* the modem (there's a web interface) to use another protocol makes the DSL stop working :-). hey grace, what's the broadband speed like? what speeds are consistent? at one point my cousin in capistrano, near cosmo, was getting modem speeds. not sure if things have improved. tiger _________________________________________________ Kagay-Anon Linux Users' Group (KLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (http://cdo.linux.org.ph) Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
