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Old 12-01-2007, 09:41   #16
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Re: sky broadband

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Its a standard Netgear router with a big SKY logo on the top.
That sound good then. They say it is yours as soon as you get it but the software in it is theirs and that they will change it if they feel like it. I think they maybe getting mixed up with their Sky TV Digiboxes
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Old 12-01-2007, 10:00   #17
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Re: sky broadband

yep, As far as I know there is no way to do a remote firmware upgrade with them. (Unlike Oranges 'Livebox')
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Old 12-01-2007, 10:54   #18
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(Unlike Oranges 'Livebox')
Yuk, do you have one of those? I don't like the idea of an ISP playing with your perfectly working box. Then again Vonage can mess with my D-Link VOIP box and I cant get into it at all. It comes preconfigured. You just plug it into your router and plug a phone into it and hey presto the phone works.
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Old 12-01-2007, 11:31   #19
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Re: sky broadband

Just because it came with my broadband package doesn't mean I'm using it. In fact currently its at "Harwood Red Towers"

I have a nice little Linksysy WRT54 which of course uses Linux for its firmware and can even be flashed to a completely open source alternative firmware enabling enterprise standard routing and extras like Samba clients and the like.
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Old 12-01-2007, 11:40   #20
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I have a nice little Linksysy WRT54 which of course uses Linux for its firmware and can even be flashed to a completely open source alternative firmware enabling enterprise standard routing and extras like Samba clients and the like.
to 99.99% of accyweb you just said "blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah"

samba.. not heard that in yrs...but then i kinda moved away from that side of things.... probably best if i stuck wth it though.. but then again..each to his own
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Old 12-01-2007, 11:56   #21
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I know

Good innit!
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Old 12-01-2007, 12:47   #22
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Does it have a USB printer port that they use for a hard drive with the linux firmware?

What do you use as a modem, or do they do a WRT54 with an ADSL modem built in?
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Old 12-01-2007, 13:11   #23
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it has an inbuilt modem. As for USB, nope they can use samba to mount Network storage, the linux firmware runs from EPROM.
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Old 12-01-2007, 15:00   #24
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Its a shame it does not have a USB port. I have seen routers that have a USB port to connect to a PC as well as ethernet ports. In fact those little BT ones do.
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Old 12-01-2007, 15:29   #25
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some have built in Print servers so you can connect USB printers directly to them for sharing across the network
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