Pretty amazing for 50 quid! Its branded as PTI/paradigm (yes, its really 50 quid. Its a dirt-cheapĬonexant 4-port router, see review and quick link. The router I'm using looks similar to the picture above (they keep changing the design!). Since the DNS addresses are also passed from the router to the clients via DHCP there is almost no configuration to Incoming ports can be mapped directly, e.g. The internal IPs as the packets come in/out. Secondly, it provides a basic firewall/port-block since the router has a static IP, allĬlients get internal IPs via DHCP. This makes life simple when adding linux boxes to the network. No OS-dependent USB drivers to worry about, just plug it into the wall (via microfilter, see below). Many people assume that a USB ADSL modem is theĮasiest way to connect, but a router is just as easy and has many benfits over a USB modem. No messy engineer has to visit your house, its all done at the exchange. After ordering, it takes around 7-10 days to do the preliminary tests and then flip you over to ADSL. You can also be unlucky if you live too far from your exchange, or if your connection fails the infamous line tests. Very remote regions are out of luck though. Regardless of ISP, BT still control broadband in the UK, so you must have a BT line (cable or sattelite broadband are other options).Ĭoverage is improving, around 70% of the UK population are on exchanges upgraded for ADSL. ADSL is a permanent connection (no dial-up!) and you usually getĪround 60kilobytes per second download. Currently I'm using a 512Kbps 50:1 ADSL connection via a combined July 2003: the price of broadband in UK finally hit a level where I thought I would
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