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Hello list, |
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Not long ago I bought an Asus DSL-N14U and I've been impressed by its |
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abilities, especially since it's quite cheap. One feature I particularly like |
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is its guest networks (I have a lady of advanced years* next-door), of which |
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it can establish three. But its logging feature is woefully limited, whether |
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remote or local: I get lots of empty or incomplete log entries, which Asus |
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says it can't improve. It has a few other minor bugs too. |
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Does anyone here know of a "professional" version of this modem, or an |
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equivalent? I mean one that does the whole job, not just what it needs to do |
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to get past the marketing department**. I'd like proper logs, and finer |
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control over what traffic is allowed between wired and wireless LANs, and |
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to/from the WAN of course. Even suitable Google search terms would be good. |
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PPPoA is not used here in the UK as far as I know. |
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* Even more advanced than mine, and maybe even Walt's, and she suffers from |
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some other effects of age too (don't we all who are past Alec's tender |
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years?). |
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** [OT] I once saw an entire company destroyed by its marketing department. |
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"Trust me, my boy," they said. They knew that all customers require ad-hoc |
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additions and alterations during the course of the project, which when added |
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up made them a profit. Wrong! We had a water-tight functional spec, complete |
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with minimum acceptable response times, and we insisted on a director-level |
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change-control board. Bad, bad news for them. They could see the writing on |
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the wall but they thought they knew better. How stupid can anyone be? Anyone |
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heard of Empros? |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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