Hello Gurus.
I'm finally getting ADSL (yay!) but Telkom tells me I have to wait until after 29/05/2006 because there are no DSLAM ports (awwwwww)... In the mean time I'm shopping arround, reading forums to learn about router / modems and what not.
I think I've got it narrowed down to two models: Either the Billion 7202* or the Netgear DG834* ... I will defintely NOT buy a device which cannot work as a router (Eg bridged mode only)
What attracts me about the Billion is the QoS feature, but before I make a purchase decision I need to know just how good / practical it realy is.
In practical terms, I want to know whether I can give guaranteed minimums to, for example, Skype and web browsing, while allowing P2P to get access to the full bandwidth any time when nothing else needs to transfer data? Also, can I proportion the allocation by client IP?
The second half is more of an academic question because everything will appear to come from IPCop in any case as far as the router is concerned. But I want to know because I find that doing QoS on IPCop isn't working for me (I'm still learning how to make it work, but right now I'm struggling with it and I might not get it to work untill I actually get DSL, eg as opposed to trying to do QoS on my dial-up link)
Depending on the answers I receive I may decide that the Billion isn't worth it. I am not hard-up for Wireless on the router because I am planning on getting a dedicated wireless access point in any case so that I can set up a proper "blue" network on IPCop. However wireless on the router may be "nice to have" untill that happens. As a side, related question, what devices do you guys recommend for Wireless access points?
On the other hand what I don't like about the Netgear devices is the reports of instability when using the wireless, so that I may just buy one of the netgear models without wireless... I get the impression though that the netgear devices are of a better quality... That is totally opinionated though and based on the incidental selection of postings that I came across, mostly on this forum.
So please feel free to correct me, and offer any advice, tips or tricks
Thanx,
_Hartz
I'm finally getting ADSL (yay!) but Telkom tells me I have to wait until after 29/05/2006 because there are no DSLAM ports (awwwwww)... In the mean time I'm shopping arround, reading forums to learn about router / modems and what not.
I think I've got it narrowed down to two models: Either the Billion 7202* or the Netgear DG834* ... I will defintely NOT buy a device which cannot work as a router (Eg bridged mode only)
What attracts me about the Billion is the QoS feature, but before I make a purchase decision I need to know just how good / practical it realy is.
In practical terms, I want to know whether I can give guaranteed minimums to, for example, Skype and web browsing, while allowing P2P to get access to the full bandwidth any time when nothing else needs to transfer data? Also, can I proportion the allocation by client IP?
The second half is more of an academic question because everything will appear to come from IPCop in any case as far as the router is concerned. But I want to know because I find that doing QoS on IPCop isn't working for me (I'm still learning how to make it work, but right now I'm struggling with it and I might not get it to work untill I actually get DSL, eg as opposed to trying to do QoS on my dial-up link)
Depending on the answers I receive I may decide that the Billion isn't worth it. I am not hard-up for Wireless on the router because I am planning on getting a dedicated wireless access point in any case so that I can set up a proper "blue" network on IPCop. However wireless on the router may be "nice to have" untill that happens. As a side, related question, what devices do you guys recommend for Wireless access points?
On the other hand what I don't like about the Netgear devices is the reports of instability when using the wireless, so that I may just buy one of the netgear models without wireless... I get the impression though that the netgear devices are of a better quality... That is totally opinionated though and based on the incidental selection of postings that I came across, mostly on this forum.
So please feel free to correct me, and offer any advice, tips or tricks
Thanx,
_Hartz
