Perhaps she meant "the router room"?

Possibly, but I suspect it was used as a sort of "black box" name for the collection of bits and pieces that takes a phone line in at one end and presents you with a number of gigabit ports at the other

Edited by billford (Sat 10-Aug-13 12:03:30)

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In reply to a post by jchamier:

Don't confuse home world "all in one box" stuff with corporate stuff

I don't usually, but Sarah's phrase "inside the router" threw me a bit.

Thanks for the clarification

Ooops, sorry about that!

I run a Cisco router with a separate dedicated hardware firewall connected to it. This is pretty much the same setup as I've run for fourteen years at home (albeit with several different Cisco routers and two different firewalls which were both from the same vendor).

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What's all the fuss about over an additional 8 bytes of MTU? Do you really think you'll notice a 0.5% difference?

it can be worse then that some sites/routers dont handle the smaller mtu too well, so might get occasional hangs on pages and such.

I see tomato firmware shibby etc. allows to use 1500mtu on pppoe, as well as BT's homehubs. using jumbo frames to get round the 1500 packet size limit.

Thanks, think I'll stick with my Fritz! 7390

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It's going to be interesting to see how long it will be before BT offers a wires only product and no longer requires the use of an Openreach modem. I think today's experience was a good sign.

EE have their new fibre broadband router that you connect with no engineer required to call at your home.

The Bright Box 2 is designed to complement EE�s own superfast Fibre broadband network and when it launches it will lead EE to become the first UK broadband provider to offer plug and play Fibre broadband, as the Bright Box 2 is just that- it can easily be set up and doesn�t require an engineer to come to your house. All you have to do is plug it in to your phone socket, meaning that you can quickly and easily get online, rather than having to wait around for potentially days for an engineer to come and install it.
To make things even more convenient the Bright Box 2 is small enough to fit through a letter box so you don�t even need to be in for delivery.

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2013/07/full-sp...

http://www.4g.co.uk/broadband/operators/ee-launching...

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In reply to a post by caffn8me:

It's going to be interesting to see how long it will be before BT offers a wires only product and no longer requires the use of an Openreach modem. I think today's experience was a good sign.

EE have their new fibre broadband router that you connect with no engineer required to call at your home.

Same as BT's HomeHub 5 then!!

I hope EE's Bright Box 2 does a better job of handling SIP Protocol for VOIP than the Bright Box 1 which is a total disaster.

Only one gigabit LAN port, the other three are still 100Mbps, which at a claimed £175 RRP is a bit poor, and since when did EE have their own FTTC network ?

They conveniently forget to mention the engineer visit to the cabinet required.

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In reply to a post by E7er:

In reply to a post by caffn8me:

It's going to be interesting to see how long it will be before BT offers a wires only product and no longer requires the use of an Openreach modem. I think today's experience was a good sign.

EE have their new fibre broadband router that you connect with no engineer required to call at your home.

Same as BT's HomeHub 5 then!!

... and the Mk 2 version of the Sky SR101 Hub when get out of beta testing.