asterisk20xx
join:2008-04-22
Marshall, TX
 ·AT&T Southwest
| reply to ahammer
Re: is this right for me
Well, if you only have 1 computer you're gonna be putting online you may be better off getting a plain terminal adapter.
I got my Cisco 804 for about $30 on ebay but I can't exactly say I'm terribly fond of it. Getting it setup was a huge pain. The FastStep software that I got from Cisco's FTP just didn't work at all. Maybe it was newer than what would have come with my 804? I dunno. In the end I had to take the router to my ISP where one of the techs was Cisco certified and he re-write most of the config manually thru telnet. Thankfully he did that for me for free, and after watching him mess around in telnet for an hour I've got a pretty decent idea of how to make my way around the 804's config now.
Mine also tends to lock up 2 or 3 times a day and needs to be power cycled to get things running again. But I leave it running (as close to) 24/7 as I can so the poor thing probably just passes out from exhaustion. I've gotten into the habit of just resetting it before I go to work, once I get back from work, and once more before I go to bed so it's not really been much of a problem.
The initial 3-4 days of trying to get it to work at all to begin with was much worse. Now that it's up and running it's a pretty solid connection.
The 804 is only a 10mbps speed router, so if you plan on transferring large files between computers be prepared for a slow transfer. |
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ruraltn
join:2008-05-16
1 edit | You should be able to plug your 804 into another router with faster speeds. Just run everything else in the house off of that to get your high speed LAN
I run a LinkSys WRT54GL wireless router behind a Netopia R-3100-U ISDN TA/Router. We do local file transfers at very high speed over the LinkSys wireless. I even run a remote desktop downstairs on my laptop, with my desktop upstairs serving. Works great. |
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aeblank
join:2004-09-07
Cadillac, MI
| reply to asterisk20xx
said by asterisk20xx  :Mine also tends to lock up 2 or 3 times a day and needs to be power cycled to get things running again. Man, that isn't right at all!!
Mine currently has an uptime of 3 weeks 5 days (not sure why its so low either, I can't remember). Both my channels have been online for 4+ days (I don't get many voice calls). Something is funky with yours.
A Cisco 804 with ROM 12.2 is pretty flippin hard to beat. I plug mine into a 24 port 100M switch, but you could use any router or switch/access point combination for the network. |
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asterisk20xx
join:2008-04-22
Marshall, TX
·AT&T Southwest
| 12.2 is what mine has! 
Well... "locking up" isn't entirely accurate. After anywhere from 5-10 hours or so both channels just disappear. LAN functions work fine but anything WAN = dead. And the only fix is to turn it off and on. I can't even telnet to the router when it's in that state. It's not a big enough issue for me to worry about. Mostly I just want my torrents running while I'm at work and asleep :P
Granted 15k isn't particularly fast for downloading stuff but 15k for most of the day is far better than only about half the day. Long as my 804 keeps going I don't mind resetting it a few times a day. |
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ruraltn
join:2008-05-16
| Don't forget that the problems might be at the Central Office. We have had three different ISDN routers (two brands) hooked to the line, and all of them have had to be reset every now and then.
Resetting the customer's ISDN box causes the equipment at the CO to go through something like a reset, too. |
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aeblank
join:2004-09-07
Cadillac, MI | I highly suspect the torrents.
I'm pretty sure torrents are hard on "something" and can cause issues. I'd be curious if there are still problems if there were a couple days with no torrents.
whatever though, if it works, it works. |
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