Palm Router
Brian Kelsay
BLKELSAY at kcc.usda.gov
Mon Mar 1 16:18:57 CST 2004
Brian Kelsay
>>> Jonathan Hutchins <> 03/01/04 09:46AM >>>
>> On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 09:56, Brian Kelsay wrote:
>> > What's a Palmrouter?
> >>> Kendric Beachey <> 02/27/04 10:29PM >>>
>> It's a little router from a company called XSense. Not very well known,
>> but has all the features I could think of. Mine has worked OK for the
>> past 18 months or so. I think I got it for about $50 from Micro Center.
>On Monday March 1 2004 08:15 am, Brian Kelsay wrote:
>> All the links I found for this little sucker showed it at $67.95 or higher.
>Kendric must be the better shopper.
>... except give you a backup connection, possibly up to 128k if it could bind
>two dial-up links. I think that would be rather useful, although the last
>time my cable modem went out it was the big ice storm and that took the >phone line out too.
If I wanted a router that had the serial port I already have my Linux Router. Lucky for me, IPCop
has diald and is able to initiate a connection over modem. When I used Freesco (Free Cisco), it
would do the same. I just never had a need for this functionality. You can also use it to dialin
remotely and get Internet access over your cable modem, effectively becoming your own dialup ISP.
I have not set this up either, but if I had to travel you can bet I would. This is exactly what
Jon ended up setting up for her husband to use from work to get email, although she used a
different distro.
So my solution is (cost of old hardware+$0 for distro+few hours of setting it up=very tweakable
Linux Router)
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