David Mahon
2006-03-20 22:53:51 UTC
With the forthcoming arrival of ADSL Max, again I find my self looking
at alternatives.
One alternative is to move to another ISP - something I would rather
avoid, but on the surface looks extremely attractive.
Another alternative is to upgrade from my 1MB home connection to Max 12,
but that would prove rather expensive.
A final alternative is to "downgrade" to Max 8 (or even 5), get a
shaping feature on my Firebrick 105 and significantly throttle 9-5
traffic (I'm not buying a profile feature as well so I can set it to 8-6
- very much annoys that when designing the firebrick 9-5 is chosen as
office hours and when talking about ADSL 8-6 was chosen instead).
My reason for posting is that I recall that a firebrick was put on the
web somewhere so that people could tinker with it and "play around" to
see how the features work. I may be mistaken, it might just be wishful
thinking. Anyway, before considering shelling out £175, does this exist
and can someone point me in the direction of the URL?
at alternatives.
One alternative is to move to another ISP - something I would rather
avoid, but on the surface looks extremely attractive.
Another alternative is to upgrade from my 1MB home connection to Max 12,
but that would prove rather expensive.
A final alternative is to "downgrade" to Max 8 (or even 5), get a
shaping feature on my Firebrick 105 and significantly throttle 9-5
traffic (I'm not buying a profile feature as well so I can set it to 8-6
- very much annoys that when designing the firebrick 9-5 is chosen as
office hours and when talking about ADSL 8-6 was chosen instead).
My reason for posting is that I recall that a firebrick was put on the
web somewhere so that people could tinker with it and "play around" to
see how the features work. I may be mistaken, it might just be wishful
thinking. Anyway, before considering shelling out £175, does this exist
and can someone point me in the direction of the URL?
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David Mahon
David Mahon