On 07/06/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Schachte</b> <<a href="mailto:schachte@csse.unimelb.edu.au">schachte@csse.unimelb.edu.au</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
migmog wrote:<br>>> You probably want to look into a Linksys NSLU2 (slug)...<br>><br>> Aye. Only I want to be a wireless router as well - there's not enough<br>> holes in the slug to plug in all those ethernet cables ;-) Besides,
<br>> I've already got a slug-equiv NAS box which works fine. I want to<br>> switch it off.<br><br>This sounds exactly like what I suggested on Dell's Ideastorm site. See<br><br><a href="http://www.ideastorm.com/article/show/66425/Develop_a_lightweight_integrated_routerWiFiFile_serverprint_server">
http://www.ideastorm.com/article/show/66425/Develop_a_lightweight_integrated_routerWiFiFile_serverprint_server</a><br><br>Here's hoping someone starts selling such a box.</blockquote><div><br>I got around the no adsl problem using a £15 quid Linksys ADSL2MUE. It looks like every other one of their products, but has the ability to do a PPPoA (british adsl) to PPPoE conversion.
<br><br>Britsh ADSL actually allows a single PPPoE connection on a PPPoA line (so the WRTSL54GS's PPPoE authentication works fine). I'm not explaining this very well, if you go to <a href="http://forums.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/forum_posts.asp?TID=2532&PN=1">
http://forums.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/forum_posts.asp?TID=2532&PN=1</a> You'll see what I mean, they're using a WRT54H but it works fine with the WRTSL54GS. I use option 2, there's no draw backs, and it means you can use any PPPoE capable router in your setup.
<br><br>Basically the ADSL2MUE acts as a bridge between PPPoE and PPPoA.<br></div><br></div>