----- Original Message -----
From: "Denis Stanton" <denisstanton@mac.com>
To: "Damien Parsons" <damien@btw.co.nz>
Cc: <adsl@unixathome.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 10:05 AM
Subject: Difference between Ni500 and M1122 ?

> Greetings
>
> Can anyone help me decide which modem I should get. I don't have an ADSL
> line yet, but I think it's time I upgraded from my 56k modem. I intend
> moving to Jetstart but I'm hesitating at the cost of DSL modems. I'm
> looking at the Nokia range and in particular the Ni500 and the N1122.
> It seems a lot of people have bought the N1122 even though it costs
> twice as much as the Ni500. There has to be a good reason for this,
> even though in my inexperience I cannot see what the N1122 does that the
> Ni500 doesn't.

Pinholing..

Well the M1122 is a Full Router as well, its just the Routing (NOT NAT) is
not supported on Jetstream/Jetstart

>
> Can you tell me whether the cheaper Ni500 would do what I want?
>
> I have a small home LAN of four (soon to be five) Macintosh computers.
> I already have a router to connect them - Xsense XRouter M1H-130A. This
> has enough ports for my LAN with a10Base-T port for a modem. The router
> takes care of DHCP and suppoerts PPPoE.
>
> The main objective in getting the DSL connection is to allow more than
> one computer to be on the net at once. A secondary objective is to
> allow at least one of the home computers to be run a web server
> accessible from the Internet.

Then the Ni500 won't be for you.

My belief is that I just need to ask
> Telecom for a fixed IP address (extra $29 month?) and do some
> configuration on the router. I don't know much about IP masquerading or
> pinholing yet, but this seems possible.
>
> Can the Ni500 do this, or do I need the N1122? Maybe having the router
> removes the need for the extra capabilities of the N1122?
>
> Thanks for reading so far.
>
> Denis Stanton
> denisstanton@mac.com
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