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Usually the ISPs T&Cs will say they're only provding the connection to YOUR household.

They can legitamately expect you to pay 10 monthly fees, if you're sharing your connection with 9 other houses !

EVERYTHING supports them - hell, you can have a connection via carrier pigeons carrying your TCP/IP packets if you like :)

The modem is what converts the TCP/IP into whatever-the-connection-method-requires, be it 56k Telephone signals, 512k ADSL signals, or bagged-up letters for the pigeons to carry. Once the data exits the modem, it is normal TCP/IP - you can do whatever you want with it, be it NAT, or whatever :)

I've seen the RFC for that. :)

I will let you know Ed, the max I normally do is 15 gig, is that not enough?

Ron

Ok find me one,

And I dont want a router

Ron

connection,

Can you find me one?

I have 2 ethernet modems here, and none of them work as a true Ethernet modem here, they all use NAT

Ron

areas.

You can use any old "Combined ADSL Modem/Router", and set it up to not use NAT, providing you only connect one PC to it. I've certainly never had any problems doing so.

Basically, ANY ADSL Modem will suit you fine, as long as it has an Ethernet port aswell/instead of the USB port, and it works fine with BT's ADSL system.

Ok so how do you set it up, I phoned netgear tech support, and even spoke to someone in the states, and they told me straight out, you cant use it as a Ethernet modem, only as a Router.

You have a setting to set it for PPPoE and PPPoA, but for love nor money could I make the "modem" have a fixed IP and then connect that to Our Firewall,

All I could do was NAT the modem which when conencting to a firewall defeated the object of having a fixed IP for our exchange server.

With the Non NAT router supplied by BT I have 5 IP's I can choose from, and route them through the firewall to our exchange server and VPN server.

If you know how to do it, with a "ethernet" modem, I would gladly listen, both the ones i have here have ethernet and usb connection on them.

The outcome I would need is, that the adsl modem would need to connect to the adsl and assign the IP to the firewall over Ethernet , if you can do this I will be most impressed :), works ok over USB to a PC.

Ronny

No idea - I've never used a Netgear one :)

Take a look on eBuyer - they sell loads of budget ADSL kit that would suit you fine. Read the reviews - people mention the support sites, and how to actually get them working !