Use Obi with Mac Airport router?!
Dmsel1:
Trying to set up the Obi using Airport router (this router only has one ethernet port). Also using cable modem that also is NOT a router (and has one ethernet port). Looks like you need two ethernet ports in the router to pull this off with Obi? Am I missing something...is there an add-on product that will provide additional ethernet ports? Or do I need a diff router?
Thanks!!
RonR:
If your router only has one WAN port for the cable modem and one LAN port for your local area network, you would need to expand that one LAN port using an ethernet switch.
You might want to consider buying a new router that has four LAN ports instead.
emachac:
I am using a newer Airport router with a cable modem and my OBI110 is working just fine. If you do buy a new router - think about QOS. My router doesn't support it and I can easily kill a phone conversation with a heavy download.
RonR:
Quote from: emachac on April 19, 2011, 09:05:20 pm
If you do buy a new router - think about QOS. My router doesn't support it and I can easily kill a phone conversation with a heavy download.
Even QoS in a router can't help that much. Your router can't control the stream coming from your ISP. It can prioritize your outgoing packets somewhat and make that direction a little better with heavy uploads, but the download side is not under your control, so you can't prioritize it.
srhuston:
Quote from: RonR on April 19, 2011, 09:42:24 pm
Even QoS in a router can't help that much. Your router can't control the stream coming from your ISP. It can prioritize your outgoing packets somewhat and make that direction a little better with heavy uploads, but the download side is not under your control, so you can't prioritize it.
Intelligent network hardware can prioritize incoming traffic by lowering TCP window size, sending back ICMP Source Quench messages (reporting that the downstream network is too congested for the amount of incoming traffic) or delaying the return TCP ACKs.
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