On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 09:29:24AM +0000, James Harper wrote:
if i still need to have a ADSL modem in dumb bridged mode (as i currently have, with pppoe running on my main machine) then i can't see any personal benefit in having an openwrt device.
Different needs for different people I guess. My OpenWRT box means I can keep the server mostly off unless I want to record something or access some files on it, but still have internet access all the time. WOL if I want to turn it on remotely.
my main machine is on 24/7 anyway. i'm occasionally tempted to move the pppoe off it and onto a smaller device. hence the now-vanished interest in openwrt. my eeepc 701 will do a better job than any openwrt box. and if i felt like buying something new, i'd probably get a new netbook with an amd fusion chip, or maybe one of the fit-pc3 devices that Rick mentioned.
i think i'll stick with Plan A - do nothing until NBN arrives in my street, then toss out the ADSL modem and plug the NBN ethernet directly into the 2nd nic of my gateway box.
Will NBN give you an Ethernet cable from the street, or will there still be a modem required?
as i understand it, it will be a box on the wall with multiple (2? 3? more?) ethernet ports. apparently NBN will support simultaneous connections to multiple ISPs. IIRC, it may also have a few phone ports that emulate analog phone lines for old phones....but that could just be garbled memory. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au> BOFH excuse #36: dynamic software linking table corrupted