[CTS] Re: DSL Modem
- From: "John Madden" <weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 19:30:01 -0500 (EST)
> Amen on that - changed my share of them in small business that had no
> need for them other than someone made a killing on selling and
> installing it when (as you mention) a cheapo Pentium/PII machine (many
> times their file server works well) and doing all the
> sharing/routing/firewall through it. I'm not going to suggest Hal do
> that as I don't know their specifics at that site. I've only had one
> that I absolutely had to reinstall a replacement Cisco - part of a 3rd
> party job and the workorder specified remove old - install and setup
> new. Easy $350 labor on that since it took a while to determine that the
> Cisco router was at fault not letting anything on the outside talk and
> wouldn't take remote SNMP commands either.
Actually, even a PII is overkill. The box we're using here is a Cyrix 166
with 32MB of ram (of which only 4-6 MB are ever actually needed), and it
firewalls, shapes packets, and is an ethernet bridge, so I didn't even
need to modify the net topology to install it, just drop it in line.
I'm actually looking for a business partner with connections to start
selling these things. $200 in hardware, the market will probably support
a $1200 price tag.
John
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