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Originally Posted by irishbear  Boy were you lucky, I know people that can't get to their technical support at all here in Ferns. And their service is on and off.
I for one would not touch them with a 40ft pole, National Wireless Broadband is way ahead of these guys, the service has never went down since it started, and I was the first to be connected. callidus have only done some small upgrades to an out of date system.
But I do not see how a LAN settings could interfere with your settings. |
I suppose it is a bit far fetched, that is if everyone who is on the system knows you need to use a router setup as a gateway and it's address setup on let's say the 192.168.?.? series of private addresses. However if our unknowing client, one with barely enough knowlage to setup static addresses on his machines on his home Lan connects that hub or switch directly to the bridge unit supplied by callidus then every machine on that Lan is visable to the network and he has just chosen my address and a third persons address for his other two machines, the system locks up every time he powers up, my system now fails to access the net, the third person's machine lock up and the culprit's system doesn't work either.
The thing is, why are the units not setup as gateways, they have that ability and any I've seen have a dhcp server as well. I know it's another hold up in the system but they would not have to give each client a pair of IP's. Any client who needs their own LAN just sets-up as to automatically obtain IP address in network setup, I think it would make the system more secure and prevent some of the problems.
As it is they are setup as a bridge, does this make them faster, I would love to find out but don't have the opertunity or time to experiment. but it would solve those problems where a client starts experimenting.