Please help did I buy the wrong thing?

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CrazyMadMan

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Hey all , I am preparing to have my ADSL line installed soon and asked everyone if the following would do if all I wanted to do was connect to my adsl, have the net, and share it with one other PC. Please check out the following link, http://www.sybaritic.co.za/store/product_info.php?cPath=100_172&products_id=7136

I bought the D-Link DI-604 4-Port Broadband Router but now it seems to me this is not a modem just a router? Did I buy the wrong thing? I asked a few people in the chat room and everyone told me it was cool. So does this connect me to the net and share my connection or is it just what would then in essence just be a hub? Please let me know because I would be very sad.
 
CrazyMadMan said:
Hey all , I am preparing to have my ADSL line installed soon and asked everyone if the following would do if all I wanted to do was connect to my adsl, have the net, and share it with one other PC. Please check out the following link, http://www.sybaritic.co.za/store/product_info.php?cPath=100_172&products_id=7136

I bought the D-Link DI-604 4-Port Broadband Router but now it seems to me this is not a modem just a router? Did I buy the wrong thing? I asked a few people in the chat room and everyone told me it was cool. So does this connect me to the net and share my connection or is it just what would then in essence just be a hub? Please let me know because I would be very sad.
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Sybaritic's page is very light on details, but a bit of googling reveals that this router has a WAN port, so everything should be cool :D I would've chosen to spend a bit extra for integrated wireless, but if you're happy to be tied down to cables, then the router should do the job just fine.

EDIT: I stand corrected - see pookfuzz's comment below. Sorry CrazyMadMan - you should take it back and get a proper adsl router.
 
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titanium said:
Sybaritic's page is very light on details, but a bit of googling reveals that this router has a WAN port, so everything should be cool :D I would've chosen to spend a bit extra for integrated wireless, but if you're happy to be tied down to cables, then the router should do the job just fine.
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Not quite true. If you have a look at the dlink site. http://www.dlink.com/products/?model=DI-604 you will see the WAN port is just another RJ45 Ethernet port to which you then connect your broadband modem.

From what I can tell this device is a router and nothing more, it is designed to allow sharing of an internet connection by plugging your Ethernet modem into the wan port.

So CrazyMadMan has made an unfortunate purchase. Actually a very stupid product the marketing suggests it can be used to connect to the internet, when in fact it can't without additional hardware.
 
That is a sweet router but alas, it doesn't have a modem built in. You can keep that and get a DSL-300T stand-alone modem which, the last time I did it, will come to the same price as one DSL-504T.

Also, you will get the ability to login in with multiple accounts - i.e. router has one login but then any windows pc can still dial-up (via pppoe) with another account. That can be useful sometimes.

There is a big picture on all d-link product pages saying how the device works - in this case, they show a adsl modem connected to the router. i think this time, some sales person gave bad advice.

Did you ask us at the MYADSL forum, mister?!?!?!? Don't think so :D
 
I too have been burnt by loosely worded box blurb. I took the damn thing right back and exchanged.
 
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