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Siemens SpeedStream 2624
Wireless Router ("Version 2")
"936-2624-001"
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9/17/03
Still have not heard from SpeedStream technical support. Read about
My
Arrangement so that you understand what I am trying to accomplish with a
router.
I configured requests to come from
the Internet from port 81 (long story), go into the router at 81, the router
redirects it to 80 and the server that is my webserver serves up the requested
page. This arrangement works for now, although I am not happy with
it. However, though, my LAN access to the Internet is still very
flakey. I am unable to get a response when I ping my public IP address
from within my LAN, yet another machine on the Internet (different IP address,
obviously) is able to get a response from ping. Seems like this router
gets "confused". I have worked with enterprise level routers
and this is not the correct behavior.
9/15/03
What a piece of junk. Read my post to SpeedStream technical support:
9/15/03 1:00pm
I recently purchased a SpeedStream 2624 (version 2) but quickly became unhappy with it and am currently considering returning it & purchasing another brand wireless router.
My problem is this:
I use this router mainly for sharing internet, firewall, and it's virtual server capabilities. I have a webserver behind the router and have configured the router to point to the internal webserver for port 80. However, sometimes after an incoming request for the website, the website will be shown once, but any subsequent requests the website will show as nonexistant. Other times, seemingly at random, I can request the website a hundred times and it works perfectly. Note that I also have configured other ports for some other incoming applications that are routed to the same server as web requests, and those applications work properly, ALL OF THE TIME.
ALSO, seemingly in parallel with this problem is random loss of being able to surf the Internet. All of my internal computers all of a sudden cannot get out to the internet.
Note that I do have a Linksys (10 MB/s speed)Hub connected to the Uplink port of the Speedstream with the switch pushed as "Uplink".
Last night I uploaded applied the latest firmware to the Speedstream, and it reports the new version as being "Version 1.1 Release 07". This has not changed the problems I am experiencing.
Also lastnight I returned my network to the config it had been using for over 1 year - using a Windows 2000 Pro box with Internet Connection Sharing to not only host my websites, but to share Internet access and it worked perfectly. So I do not believe my ISP is randomly blocking port 80(!) as it may seem from the description of my problem.
The websites I am hosting are:
http://thealdens.org
http://aldentechnology.com
These domains do not point to the webserver directly; they are forwarded to a dns service which then routes to my public IP address. The internal webserver uses Host Headers to determine which website is being requested.
Tonight I will probably purchase a different router unless I hear from you with some good news sooner!
Thank you,
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