----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Whitmore" <lennon@orcon.net.nz>
To: "Denis Stanton" <denisstanton@mac.com>; "Damien Parsons"
<damien@btw.co.nz>
Cc: <adsl@unixathome.org>
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: Difference between Ni500 and M1122 ?
<SNIP>
> >
> > 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.

Are you allowed to run dedicated servers on Jetstart ?, i was under the
impression that this was imposed by telecom, and not the isp you are with,
or can i run a server on jetstart if i find an isp that will allow it ?

> 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.

Also, again with static ips, isn't this an ISP dependent thing ? (I'm pretty
sure xtra don't offer them, *sigh*).

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Received on Tue Jul 10 13:42:32 2001