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BYO Linux Router To Australia's Fibre Network

Posted by timothy on from the please-live-near-the-coast dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Run a Linux router to connect your ADSL service but worried about what will happen when the Australian Government rolls out fibre broadband to your house or business? Worry no more. It turns out that customers on Australia's new National Broadband Network will be able to run their own homebrew Linux router to connect to the network and route traffic any way they please."

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  1. Re:What's the story? by TheThiefMaster · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If anyone wants to build their own router and is concerned about power usage, size, heat or noise (i.e. doesn't want to use an old desktop) I would recommend them to look into mini-itx systems. The power supplies for an entire typical mini-itx are rated lower than the cpu alone requires in a desktop. They can be made not only fanless, but completely moving-parts-free. And best of all, they're not much larger than the router you'd be replacing!

    It's not cheap though, unfortunately.

  2. Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    How is changing your router going to get around filters? It's ISP based, the outgoing routes are going to be filtered anyway.

  3. Re:As one would expect nowadays, but ... by XMode · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Bah.. That's nothing.. Our 'any router will do' policy once got me in to an argument with a customer that lasted a good 20 mins. When I advised him for the 5th time that while he had a router, he would ALSO need some form of computer to get internet pages, he demanded to speak to my supervisor.