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In <p05111717b90b4c01f392@[10.9.8.215]>, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> typed:
> At 4:17 PM -0700 2002/05/17, Terry Lambert wrote:
> >  A much better paradigm would have been a single round green
> >  button on the front, wich connected your small office to the
> >  Internet.
> 	Naw, you want something that just automatically works, and 
> doesn't require any buttons.

I almost replied to Terry pointing out that the Linksys cable/dsl
router has no buttons. You shut off all your gear, plug the modem into
the WAN side, plug your computers into the LAN side, and then turn on
the modem, router and systems in order. If you've got typical Windows
installs, you're done.

If you need something that requires a static IP address - like an NFS
server - you have to configure it. If your systems were doing dialup
internet, you'll have to run the internet wizard on them. If you want
to run web servers and the like, you have to configure it yet more.
But those options are for geeks. For a small all-MS shop that
outsources it's servers, it's a near-perfect solution - unless you
want to run netmeeting including someone not on the LAN. I'm waiting
for them to announce a firmware upgrade running an OH323 gatekeeper,
but expect it to be a new product.

	<mike
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