[geeks] Stoopid question re: cable ISP, modem, router bonding

[James Fogg]

> I tried to set up a smoothwall router a few months ago, but I didn't have
> enough time to do it right and got frustrated. It never occurred to me to
> reset the cable modem after I swapped a Dell PC in for my WRT54GS/Sveasoft
> router. I swapped boxes and the link never came up, no matter how much I
> beat on Smoothwall. I had never really worked with anything resembling a
> "real" router before, so I simply gave up and put the Sveasoft solution
> back in place.


I find smoothwall to have much higher throughput than things like Linksys
routers. I lost a PIX to a lightning strike and had to put a Linksys into
emergency service and noticed the throughput sucked. I tried others with the
same results. Smoothwall solved the problem (old 500mhz Compaq pc, 128M dram).
Now I'm having a problem with my Vonage VoIP connections randomly dropping
about once per day. Also, images for Amazon.com are broken (this is really
Amazon's screwup, but only some firewalls fail to track state with the
solution Amazon is using).