Re: Broadband still coming to 100% of NI

[Ant <ant@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 08 October 2003 16:00, Mark McCall wrote:

> A mate who was at that conference yesterday says a lot of the action
was =
on
> wireless broadband services.  Apparently these have the advantage of
bein=
g
> symetrical 512/512
>
> I know Ant is on a wireless trial at present though and in his words
"it'=
s
> NAT'd all the hell" and that's giving him problems running
servers etc.

> <Otto-Mate> blowbacH - can you post a bit on the Tony Butler
thread about=
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your wireless trial?

I obey.

Indeed I am on a wireless trial. It's the UK Radiocommunications Agency
tri=
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of effective spectrum usage or somesuch. It's a symmetric 4Mbps wireless=20
link. Slightly outdated info at http://www.zen21278.zen.co.uk/radio
- I'll=
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post newer pics shortly.

As far as I can tell, the service gets handed dynamic IP addresses, which
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head-end router then NATs. This is NATd again by the 1U powerpc linux
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they give you. Oh, and they can't do port-forwarding. So it's pants for=20
anything other than outbound connections.

cheers

ant
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