Hello I bought the Zyxel Prestige 645 Router/Modem from dsl-warehouse.co.uk. Got it the next day. I talk to it using telnet. Not a single problem with it. It does NAT for all my home computers-> Solaris, Windows and Linux. Cheers Peter John Cameron wrote:
After nearly three weeks of trying, I've given up with the alcatel speedtouch modem. Short of throwing it out the window, I can't do anything with it other than initialise it. I tried PPPoA and got nothing beyond LCP timeouts. I tried PPPoE (with a downloaded br2684ctl) and though I get "ifconfig nas0" returning an ethernet address etc., the "pppd nas0 &" call complains about nas0 being unknown. Ho hum. I give up.
I'd like some recommendations for a decent external ADSL modem (or router) plus network card. I only have a standalone PC at home. There are plans for a network but that probably won't happen this year.
For any UK-ers, I'm in Surrey so I'd also be interested in knowing where I could walk in and buy the equipment (I try to avoid PC World if at all possible).
cheers, Peter