Re: [Sheflug] after a cable modem which supports SIP

["David Bottrill" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robin Wood wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 14:24 +0000, David Bottrill wrote:
>> Robin Wood wrote:
>> > Hi
>> > I'm moving to a house which has cable so I'm going to be needing a
>> cable
>> > modem. Can anyone recommend one which will support SIP? Even better
>> > would be one which will take openWRT (I assume that openWRT will
>> support
>> > SIP).
>> >
>> > Do telewest/virgin/whoever currently owns it let you chose which modem
>> > you have or offer discounts on alternatives?
>> >
>> > Robin
>>
>> NTL or whoever normally provide and Ethernet / USB modem, this is
>> literally a modem without any router / firewall capabilty.
>>
> I haven't looked into telewest yet but some ISP's I've use give the
> option of spending an extra couple of quid and upgrading the modem they
> provide.
>
>> Why not get a Linksys wrt router and then run openWRT on it.
>>
>
> If not then I may do this, I have an ASUS AP with openWRT that I use for
> testing stuff, I may put that in.
>
As Virgin Media (NTL/TELEWEST) control the entire cable market in the UK I
would guess you are stuck with the modem they give you. At least this
means that you are free to hang what you like behind the modem.


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