ADSL & Thomspon Modem

[ngrayson]

Guys,

I'm fishing! I currently run wingate 6.0.3 on a 98SE machine with an ISDN internal adapter.

In July, the village finally gets broadband, two more dogs and a third horse!

The ISP is supplying a thompson 330 USB ADSL modem with it. I know wingate can deal with it but does anyone have good or bad experiences or advice to share regarding this configuration.

Many thanks,
Neil

[Nev]

Hi Neil,

Commiserations on the extra livestock, it's a very ordinary winter here in rural / remote Australia with the stock and farmers [me that is] having a tough time until about October at least, ermmm I digress how did that get in here?

As for Thomson modems, well I haven't any liking of them, being a wholesale item not available to the public except with a contract / ISP, information can be a little lacking.

Nevertheless I have 'come to terms' with one a client has for Wingate to work with in their office network.

The telco sent an installer to finalise and 'sign out' the installation to an 'online state with authentication to the service provider', which involved illegibly scribbling the client user / pass on and signing the form thereafter leaving the modem on top of the Wingate PC!

Some time later and having to use the support service it eventually worked, quite well actually.

The only issue was trying to learn the CLI [command line interface] unique to brand :-( sigh!

Purpose being to open ports and allow inbound management connections to Wingate / remote control VNC.

Ho hum, after some research of 'the boards' Thomson has a GUI to do just that in about ten seconds, thereafter all works very well, but my preference in Australia is for Netcomm modems and their intuitive browser based management facility which works immediately without extra app's.

[ngrayson]

Hi Nev,

Many thanks for the insight.

I think the only problem I may have then is performance. I'm running wingate on a 400M AMDK6 under win 98SE which is also the network server, Print server etc.

Mind, its only a familly network of 4 PC's so I guess I'll have to suck it and see.

Cheers,
Neil