On 4/13/06, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You know as crappy as the actiontec router that Qwest provides looks > from a spec sheet. In Rock Springs when I worked for Wyoming > Analytical Labs, that was what they used when I got there and after my > initial objections, I learned to actually like it alot. It does a > fine job, and there is something to be said sanity wise for using the > same HW in all of your facilities.
The only beef I have with Actiontec routers and modems, are that their site filtering leaves a lot to be desired (basically the have none) at least on the ones I have dealt with in the past. If they have some better ones, whichs ones work best? In my dream world, I would like to be able to set up a white list of sites that can be visited... The rest get rejected and blocked. I am half tempted to set something up with OpenWRT and some WRT54GL (Linksys) and the use standard Linux apps. I wonder if they support what I am looking at... Back to google. > Now with Utopia you don't actually get a modem, you get the standard > router they provide, it has 3 or 4 ports depending on the model (All > of them I have seen are from Allied Telesync), and is hardwired > whereever they bring the fiber into the building. It also has a phone > jack for phone services. > However you could stick another actiontec router (non DSL) in between > it and your Utopia provided one. This would give you a common > interface, for handling things like firewall and NAT issues, since the > Utopia router does not provide NAT (or if it does I have yet to figure > out how). So it is sounding like I need to go with multiple models rather than being able to get a single model and then set up a configuration file I can just blast them with. > > Thats what I would do if I knew in advance that I would be using > Utopia in some facilities and Qwest in others, assuming of course > Qwest would be available in more of my locations than Utopia. > > Regards, > Steve /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
