Re: Broadband still coming to 100% of NI

[Tony Butler <lists@xxxxxxx>]

Quoting Ant <ant@xxxxxxx>:

> of effective spectrum usage or somesuch. It's a symmetric 4Mbps
wireless
> link. Slightly outdated info at http://www.zen21278.zen.co.uk/radio
- I'll
> post newer pics shortly.

Cool - 4meg - Niiiiceeee!

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

FFS - why so many goddamned NATs?  Could you bypass the powerpc and use
your
own <something or other> ?

What if u stuck your own router after the *nix box and THAT did the port
forwarding???

T.