Hi all Recently, Lynne and I had a remote play around with Dane Trethowan's Fritz! Box router. i have to say that I was very impressed by the interface. It's HTML, and seems fully accessible.
Unfortunately, our Apple Time Capsule has now decided that its working life should come to an end. Therefore, I began the search for a replacement. The Fritz! Box caught my attention because of the fat that it's two USB ports allow the addition of as much backup media as you care to install, which suits me fine. The Apple Time Capsule was not my first choice right from the start when it's hard drive showed signs of failure. To be honest, the Apple Time Capsule is slow, way too devoid of configuration options and its price tag was a little too high for me to be comfortable with. The Fritz! Box which we are getting is the big brother of Dane's, I believe. This one has capability of handling up to 5 VOIP connections, and I believe it's possible to use is as a VOIP/PSTN PBX as well. That could be useful actually, and I may just venture back into the world of VPN telephony now. I gave up on it some time ago as I only had the SPA2000 adapter and although it works, it brings problems. This Fritz! Box has 4 Giganet ports, plus dual-band, (2.4 and 5 GHZ. The smaller model only uses 2.4 GHZ which means potential clashes with other wireless devices such as mobile phones. We will not be using the Fritz! Box as an ADSL router, as our Internet trunks are SDSL and require dedicated hardware. But it's possible to disable the ADSL modem and just use the Fritz! Box as a hub/gateway. Hopefully, I can bridge it seamlessly into our networks. It will be interesting indeed to see whether I can allocate different IP ranges and gateways for each port. If this router supports that, (usually something found on high end non-domestic equipment), it really will be a useful addition to our network family. As it is, I am quite glad to get away from Apple's base stations to be honest. They are very restrictive devices and, as I've already said, they introduce bottlenecks on a bridged network. Gordon <--- Gordon Smith ---> This message was written using 100 Percent recycled electrons. [email protected] Follow us on Twitter: @maciosaccess <---> ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
