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Date:	Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:56:54 -0700
From:	J R FOX <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Installing DSL

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--- On Sun, 10/26/08, Peter Skye wrote:

> The curious thing to me is that the few high-speed systems
> I've worked
> on had _separate_ modems and routers. From your and
> Fox's posts,
> apparently there is now a combination modem-router which
> they're using.
>
> I've been through two DSL modems and two Hughes
> satellite modems, and
> all were just modems. The routers have all been Linksys.
>

I wouldn't say "now", as in current issue. I've had the same DSL modem for about 8 years. (They did reprogram it at least once, but remotely -- no hands-on required.) If I ever have occasion to i.d. this model to tech support, it is not very familiar to them, as they probably consider it ancient history. I'm glad it continues to work without problem, as I like it and would not want to have to replace it. At one point I had an unused spare of it that came to me serendipitously, and I now regret having donated it somewhere.

Again, I think the static vs. dynamic IP thing may be a significant piece of this puzzle.

Where I have seen a cable modem setup *plus* router, it was either because the router was wireless (I'm wired only at home, by choice), &/or so that a router could service multiple computers simultaneously. {Query: does that negatively impact one's connection speeds ? I would think it must.}

And I don't know if my separate firewall box in any way counts as a "router."

Jordan

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