ISDN Router

Our man in Havana

I need an ISDN router, does such a beast exist at all. Can't find one anywhere.

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niallb

Try searching for 3com officeconnect products.
They were widely available in Ireland.

Something like this.
Other models exist. Cisco and Zyxel also had ISDN LAN products.

NiallB

GoneShootin

We've one sitting around in the office but I could never login to the control panel to get it configured. Possibly out of the technical reach though.

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morgana

I've got a DrayTek Vigor 2900gi which does DSL, ISDN and wired/wireless LAN. I've got no BB but needed a router for ISDN and a wireless access point, this machine works well, and should I ever get BB (one lives in hope), it'll do that as well. That was the only router I could find about 3 years ago which would do ISDN, they have become a rare old beast.

GoneShootin

A question about those ISDN routers. Does the router itself decide when to connect, or would you have be online 24/7 simlarly to BB?

Zith

Router decides when to connect. You can set an idle timeout and most have configurable BOD functionality (use two channels when above a certain threshold). Most routers you can examine what packet caused the router to connect (and block that in future if you don't want that particular thing to cause a connect).

If you are considering gaming over it then beware of the Dlink DI-304 because there is a fault with handling UDP over NAT (and no fix). TCP is fine.

/Zith

GoneShootin

Zith wrote:

Router decides when to connect. You can set an idle timeout and most have configurable BOD functionality (use two channels when above a certain threshold). Most routers you can examine what packet caused the router to connect (and block that in future if you don't want that particular thing to cause a connect).

If you are considering gaming over it then beware of the Dlink DI-304 because there is a fault with handling UDP over NAT (and no fix). TCP is fine.

/Zith

Gaming won't be an issue. So which models would people recommend? Just want to to distribute the single 64k ISDN To a PC down the hallway - for basic interwebbing.

Zith

GoneShootin wrote:

Gaming won't be an issue. So which models would people recommend? Just want to to distribute the single 64k ISDN To a PC down the hallway - for basic interwebbing.

I wonder then if you need a router at all. How long is the hallway, what about a long ISDN cable? Do you already have a PC near the NT1 box or is it at the end of the hallway? If 2 windows PCs you could just use the built in connection sharing over an ethernet cable.

GoneShootin

Zith wrote:

I wonder then if you need a router at all. How long is the hallway, what about a long ISDN cable? Do you already have a PC near the NT1 box or is it at the end of the hallway? If 2 windows PCs you could just use the built in connection sharing over an ethernet cable.

Yes I've though of linking the PC's, but the "source" PC won't always be on. I'd rather whatever PC's connected to the router to be able to connect without depending on the availability of another. I don't think they make ISDN long enough for my needs

/me cries out for broadband.

Zith

GoneShootin wrote:

I don't think they make ISDN long enough for my needs

I had the ISDN box (NT1) in the attic of my two story house with a CAT5 cable run into the office downstairs to the ISDN modem in the PC. Suppose that's about 25 feet with no issues/errors. Not sure what the spec says but you could make your own cable. It's just a straight through with RJ45 on the ends a-la ethernet, only uses 2 pairs in the middle of the connecter I seem to remember.

/Zith