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<div>Anne-Marie<br>
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<div>I would look into Netgear. I too, had an XSense M120, that
Iupdated to the equivalent of an M130 via firmware upgrade
several years ago. However, it became unreliable. I saw a number
of recommendations for Netgear on a list (maybe this one, I
don'tremember...).</div>
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<div>I bought the Netgear WGT624 Wireless Firewall Router (sold
at Compuserve and other retail outlets). Its wireless, but also
has four ports for a wired network. (If you go wired only, you
can disable the wireless).</div>
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It works great. I didn't have to complete the "auto
wizard"setup -- I received a prompt saying that the router
detected a connection and simply started working.<br>
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Perhaps you could scan their website to see if they have a
similar 6 or 8 port model.<br>
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Stan<br>
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<div><u>Anne-Marie Concepcion wrote</u>:<br>
I have an old XSense M120 ... 4 slow Ethernet ports, one cross
port and one DSL uplink port (hooked up to the DSL modem), with
NAT and a usable browser admin panel. It's expanded with another
XSense hub/router/switcher thingie (never sure of the
distinction) that has 8 additional slow Ethernet ports.<br>
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MacSense hasn't updated firmware for it since 2001 and I'm
prettysure the product is abandoned. The apparent replacement is
an M130 which doesn't look/function much different, as far as I
can tell. Their focus is elsewhere these days.<br>
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Does anyone have any recommendations for a fast, Mac OS X-savvy,
recent vintage Ethernet DSL router/hub/switcher thingie with NAT
and 6 or 8 ports? Hooked up to my Ethernet hub are:<br>
- Color laser printer<br>
- Airport Express<br>
- 1 Lombard PowerBook (no Airport)<br>
- 3 G4 PowerBooks with various Airport cards (some
fast some slow)<br>
- 1 Dell 4500 S (no wireless card)<br>
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I like having the flexibility with the powerbooks to use
Ethernet(there's ports all over the house with a patch panel in
the basement) vs. Airport if Airport is acting flaky or can't
geta signal. But it's okay with me if a couple of the PBs are
Airport-only as they're used only off and on.... also I'm
planning on adding a small file server to the network (subject
for a future post, heh) which I assume should be Ethernet.<br>
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Thanks<br>
AM<br>
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