Topic: DSL Modems recomendations UK

[Matt]

I have been trying to use a D-link 300g+ ethernet modem with my e-smith box in server gatway dedicated mode, with limited success on BT broadband.   When the connection is up everything works perfectly however I keep losing my connection to the internet and it always seems a real pain to reconnect.

Can anyone out there suggest a more realiable modem that they have expeirence with or is a router a better bet, routers seem more complicated to setup and I really need to keep things as simple as possible.  

Any suggestions would be very helpful, as the company i purchased to modem from have offered to exchange it for something else.

Thanks in advance.

[Ed Form]

Matt wrote:

> Can anyone out there suggest a more realiable modem that they
> have expeirence with or is a router a better bet, routers
> seem more complicated to setup and I really need to keep
> things as simple as possible.

SMC Barricade 7401BRA ADSL Router. Doesn't cost much more than the D-Link but works with boring reliability.

Ed Form

[Andy Parkinson]

I rather like the Zoom ethernet gateway router. It is a piece of cake to set up with the choice of nat or no nat and comes with two free microfilters. A bit more expensive than the the dlink but well worth the money.

[Matt]

Does anyone have experince of using a NETGEAR DG814 DSL  INTEGRATED DSL MODEM AND ROUTER  with e-smith servers

[Barry Fitzmaurice]

We use the Vigor 2600 integrated DSL modem / router, and it works fine.

Barry

[Graeme Fleming]

Yep

The NG814 works great outta the box and handle PPPoA or PPPoE, do NAT, SPI, URL filtering, etc

Just setup your second NIC in the SME (gateway/firewall) to a static IP in the same range as the private port IP address in the Netgear.  Using it this way with SME running a firewall as well means you have two layers of protection - it can't hurt but is prob overkill for home.

One caveat is that I have heard a lot of people have probs with VPN's using these rigs.

HTH

[Peter]

We had a netgear NG814 but we needed VPN and it wouldn't play ball so we got a SMC 7401, as mentioned previously, instead.

It's been perfect so far....

Peter.