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Date:	Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:42:32 -0700
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Installing DSL

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Virginia R. Hetrick, Ph.D. wrote:
>
> Hi, Peter,

Well hi there Virginia!

> the code running the install is a Windoze app as far
> as I can tell. It has to run in Windoze so that the
> appropriate information is put into the router.

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.

My modems haven't required any setup at all. I just plug them in, check
the lights, and they work. The Hughes satellite modem at 192.168.0.1
has some web pages you can view to check its status, but the Fujitsu DSL
modems (at least mine) don't have anything that you can do with them --
no settings, no viewable web pages, no IP address.

The Linksys routers, which are at 192.168.1.1 and are fed by the modems,
_do_ have web-accessible settings, but these web pages are accessible
from OS/2 as well as Windows.

There is nothing special that I know of that has to be put into the
routers. A Windows install might need to open some ports so Microsoft
can have its own servers "monitor" your machine, but otherwise it's just
DHCP for each machine and with certain ports open. Nothing special
requiring a Windows box for setup.

Is your hardware a combo modem-router box? What, exactly, is your
hardware?

- Peter

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