Re: Broadband still coming to 100% of NI

[Ant <ant@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 08 October 2003 16:29, Tony Butler wrote:

> Cool - 4meg - Niiiiceeee!

Yeah, it's not bad at all. I'm into the LINX inside of 8ms too! ;)

> FFS - why so many goddamned NATs?=20=20

Well, it is a trial, so it has a slightly McGuyver set-up. I'm sure any=20
commercial roll-out would have more thought put into it.=20

> Could you bypass the powerpc and use
> your own <something or other> ?

Gnope, the ppc box (pics coming) or "Cambridge Broadband Vectastar
Interfac=
e=20
Control Unit" as it proudly calls itself also has gubbins to control
the=20
antenna, which it talks to via a strand of cat5 (which I've determined
just=
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carries power) and two strands of fibre-optic cable (40 metres of which is=
=20
currently coiled up in my loft).

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

Would just mean you could port-forward from one side of that box to the
oth=
er=20
- not very useful. You're still two NAT gateways away from reaching the=20
internet :(

Still, can't complain!

ant
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