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Does anyone know who supplies Linksys? I'm looking for a WAG320N, preferably the whoelsaler although if I can find a walk-in store in CPT to buy one that is also OK.
 
Any other suggestions? I've since decided I don't mind if the ADSL modem part is not integrated. Seems the only way I will get what I want.
 
Ok, thanks for the flood of responses, your guys assistance has been overwhelming;)

What I have gone for is the following

TP-Link - TD-8840 for the ADSL modem
TP-Link - WR1043ND for the wireless N and giabit LAN ports

Nice thing is they have offices around the corner from where I work so I can pop in and collect or moan or whatever.

I will be setting them up this evening and will let you all know how it goes.
 
I also wanted to go for the WAG320, but then I was told that the WRT to go with it is actually end-of-life.

so decided I will go with the Netgear DGN3500 with 2x WNDR3500's
 
Juggy said:
Does anyone know who supplies Linksys? I'm looking for a WAG320N, preferably the whoelsaler although if I can find a walk-in store in CPT to buy one that is also OK.
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Westcon/Comstor are the distributors that I can think of. They should have a CPT office I think.

www.comstor.co.za
 
So far eveything looks pretty good. I quite like the idea of seperating the roles. I got stuck a little with connecting the modem to the WAN port on the AP. I wasn't arsed to bugger around trying to sort it out so I simply set the devices as completely seperate. DHCP is issued from the AP and disabled on the modem.

Looking good so far
 
Did you stick with the TP-Link firmware or did you asked that the WR1043ND be flashed with DD-WRT?
 
I kept the standard FW, I was told by Anthony that the DD FW has a negative impact on the wireless performance so I stayed stock.

I might still try it though.

Thanks for all your advice by the way, it really helped with my decision in the end.
 
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I'm curious to know how the NAS support is with the stock FW, because with DD-WRT the NTFS speeds are really terrible. I never got more than 4MB/s, even via Gigabit LAN.

I'm glad my advice helped.
 
Pada said:
I'm curious to know how the NAS support is with the stock FW, because with DD-WRT the NTFS speeds are really terrible. I never got more than 4MB/s, even via Gigabit LAN.

I'm glad my advice helped.
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I mentioned the terrible NAS performance and he reckons they sorted it our with the last FW release.

Give it a go, you might be surprised.
 
Does anyone know how to properly use the WAN port on the WiFi router thing?

Do I need to put the modem in bridged modem and simply connect it? What do I do about it's IP/DHCP setup and how then does the port forwarding work?
 
I'd put the AP/router in bridge mode if you're dialing the PPPoE connections from the modem, because then the router would simply act as a 1Gbps network switch, which is what you want I suppose.
You might want to change the DHCP server to the ADSL modem instead, unless this router of your's DHCP server can give the clients a custom gateway address, which should point to your ADSL modem's IP address in this case.

Usually the WAN port is meant for when you connect the router to a different subnet / Internet connection, where the WAN port will be assigned by the WAN subnet's DHCP server. In a case like this, the router will have to know that it has to route all the non-LAN traffic via the WAN port.
A setup like this is nice to have, but I won't recommend one like this if your AP is on the router's WAN subnet, in which case a bridged configuration is the better option.

Port forwarding won't be a problem in both of the configurations that I've described above. The bridged one would be more hassle free though, because you'll require a routed network between the WAN & LAN subnet if you chose not to bridge the router. If you didn't route the WAN & LAN subnets between the modem & router, then you'll have to port forward on both devices :p

Here is what I meant with routed:
ADSL modem is on 192.168.1.1 and is also a DHCP server that will hand out IP's between 192.168.1.100 -192.168.1.254.
The router (which is also the WiFi AP) will be assigned an IP address of 192.168.1.100 on its WAN port by the ADSL modem.
The router is not in bridge mode, and it will also have it's own LAN IP address of 10.0.0.1, and serve IP addresses with its DHCP server with a range of 10.0.0.100 - 10.0.0.254.

If you haven't specifically configured ADSL modem to route the 10.0.0.0 - 10.0.0.255 subnet via 192.168.1.100 (which is the router's IP), then the router will NAT all the connections to IP addresses other than 10.0.0.0 - 10.0.0.255, BECAUSE the ADSL modem would send the packets destined for 10.0.0.x via the PPPoE connection ;)

So in a setup like this, I'd advise you to setup a static IP for the router's WAN port, so that you can add a static route on the ADSL modem for the router's LAN subnet.​
 
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I see, what I currently have is the following

Modem - 10.0.0.1
WiFi - 10.0.0.2
DHCP on the Wifi

Modem is connected to a swicth port not the WAN port and then a custom gateway is defined in the wifi device DHCP which would be 10.0.0.1 instead of it's own IP.

Port forwarding works fine.

I was just curious about the WAN port which I would assume is more utilised in Cable installations or where the telco puts in terminating equipment.
 
Yup. The WAN port will be used in a case of a cable Internet connection.

I thought I was clever/fancy by separating my WiFi & LAN PC's with 2 different subnets. It bit me in my ass when I tried to stream videos to the Samsung TV via wireless, due to the broadcast packets being limited to a single subnet.
I still haven't reconfigured my parent's network so that the LAN & WiFi interfaces are bridged... LOL
 
wag320n

I got the wag320n without much research :sick: LAN/WI-FI preformance is a rollercoster. Streaming HD video over wi-fi works half the time and makes me want to smash it. Thats the most anoying, lately I have reboot it every time i want to dial my isp. Definitely will not buy cisco again. The useless marconi I got from telkom had more reliable preformance. :mad:
 
Seems you may have a dud. I have had great joy with Cisco. Got their switches and WAPs dotted around the house and the WAG320N for internet.
 
At my office, we've had nothing but issues with the low-end range of Cisco routers: the first one was the Cisco ADSL modem that we got with our Mweb business ADSL line, and the second one was with the Neotel Neobroadband Fiber connection that we've got.
Their enterprise class switches are brilliant though.

I would suggest that you first check your ADSL statistics, as well as testing again with your Telkom Marconi router before just ditching the Cisco router. Make sure to post the line attenuations, SNR (noise) margins and line speeds here. If you can get the ADSL modulation too (either G.DMT or ADSL2+), then post that too.

I've seen quite a few cases on myBB where people switched ADSL modems, and just as they did that their ADSL connections went bad, which wasn't attributed to the change in ADSL modem at all.
 
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