Microfilter and router suppliers.

Hi

Our Village exchange is being enabled in October, And as I will be
back in the job market again after spending the last 8 months looking
after my Daughter, I am looking to provide a local service installing
ADSL the technical side is not a problem haveng spent the last 22
years in the industry designing Voice and data solutions.

What I am looking for is suppliers of microfilters Modems and routers
at competitive prices. Initial quanties will be low proberly 100
filters and 5 - 10 modems and routers.

Our Trigger was 400 so in theory there are at least 300+ potential
customers.

Any info would be appriciated. either reply here or email direct.

Also does anyone know of any PC based Ip switchs that support NMS
cards as the asterix doesnt or does anyone want to swap some dialogic
cards for NMS 8 port cards.

Ian Plain

www.cyber-cottage.co.uk

"Ian" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> What I am looking for is suppliers of microfilters Modems and routers
> at competitive prices. Initial quanties will be low proberly 100
> filters and 5 - 10 modems and routers.

You can't do much cheaper than ebuyer's microfilters @£1.25. Also worthwhile
to have a few more expensive 'Fujitsu' filters in the bag for the rare
occasions when dodgy lines/sensitive handsets cause problems.

For connections then if you go down the router route(!) you will also need
to stock some PCI Network Interface Cards. £3.25 at ebuyer. As for routers -
then, assuming its domestic and questions like NAT/no-NAT would confuse -
there is no reason to again stick to the cheapest. Invariably these are
Conexant. The cheapest supplier seems to oscillate between DABS & Ebuyer.
DABS is more likely to have stuff in stock.

Be careful. It is amazing the mess some home users (or rather their kids)
get their machines into. We do commercial work which is usually
straightforward. I dread it when a 'friend' asks me to help fix his home
installation.

You also need to take a position on multi-PC access to ADSL.

OK so a router is better than ICS. But are you into cabling? Drilling holes,
threading RJ-45 plugs? Going Wireless avoids that - but can be difficult if
the building is built of double-brick. You may be able to get away with the
cheapest WAP (£45.99) - or you may find the most expensive 54G inadequate...

Anyway good luck,

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Stuart

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 20:33:33 +0100, "Ian Nelson"
<nospam@ian(AT)neltek.com> wrote:

>I thought Conexant had loads of issues?
>
>That sounds awkward but I am just interested because I am about to plunge in
>to broadband and was looking at routers and wireless and had been told not
>to go for Conexant but go for Netgear wireless
>??

It depends what you require from a router. I am very happy with my
Connexant as are a lot of others.

Andrew.

"Ian Nelson" <nospam@ian(AT)neltek.com> wrote in message
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> I thought Conexant had loads of issues?
>
> That sounds awkward but I am just interested because I am about to plunge
in
> to broadband and was looking at routers and wireless and had been told not
> to go for Conexant but go for Netgear wireless
> ??

Yes. I wouldn't use a Conexant for myself

But if it is a straightforward installation which is not going to be
'fiddled-with' by the user - then it is IMHO as good as a 'brand label'.

If you pay the extra for Netgear/Dlink etc you get more - but a rule in IT
is the more you have, the more that can go wrong. And it does!

So - if you enjoy fiddling with routers - spend the money, if you don't,
spend it on something else!

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Stuart