Opinion on Lucent Routers please

[dg80]

Anyone any experience, information, opinion etc. on a Lucent Pipeline®75 Ethernet-to-ISDN Bridge/Router

details here
http://www.lucent.com/products/solution/0,,CTID+2017-STID+10444-SOID+609-LOCL+1,00.html

David

[MiCroStoogE]

You must have done something very bad in a previous lifetime if you have to deal with a Pipeline now!!! :)

Seriously -- yes, I've dealt with Pipeline 75s. They're better than an internal PCI or ISA ISDN "modem", but only just. The interface is quirky (especially if you're used to more modern user-friendly cable/DSL routers), and beware -- what Ascend/Lucent calls NAT is not what everyone else in the world calls NAT !!!

There are a couple of good things about them, however -- one, since most everyone who had ISDN has now dumped it for DSL or cable Internet service, you can find used ones pretty cheap. For another, you can reset the thing through software over the LAN -- which can't be said for all more modern cable/DSL routers.

[dg80]

Thanks for the reply.

From your reply it looks like I am going to pay for past mistakes <g>

The router is s/h as new for something like £30. The alternative is a Netgear 338/348. From what I have read the Pipeline seems the better buy, but if it is going to be a pig to set up then maybe something else.

Your thoughts welcome.

David

[MiCroStoogE]

Well, another thing about the Pipeline over an alternative like the NetGear would be that your ISP or telco might have experience with the Pipeline and be able to supply you with a complete configuration. If I had to set up ISDN from scratch without help from an ISP, though, I think I'd go for the NetGear, even if Lucent has seen the light and dropped the price on the Pipeline. It can't be worse than the Pipeline and might be a lot better.

Thirty pounds? They used to cost ten times that, if I'm not mistaken.

[dg80]

Thanks for that

Decisions decisions. From what I remember reading the Pipeline was more difficult to set up, but the Netgear was more awkward to interface to, and there was no way of backing up the config, and if lost had to be set up again.
Also I think the Pipeline has more of a firewall

Maybe it is time to flip a coin

David