Call me computer network geek with boobies

Today at 2.30 pm you might have heard a loud YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!

That was me, because I could finally get my personal smart DSL friggling modem2modem setup to work.

So far I was using my wireless German DSL modem (Fritzbox 7050), which I hacked from Annex B to Annex A to receive the Australian DSL signal, plus I changed the firmware and installed another hack.
Unfortunately I didn’t receive the full ADSL2+ speed with my hacked German Fritzbox modem. My internet provider is iinet, and they advertise with up to 24000 kb/s as download speed, which one can only reach when your next exchange is right next to your house probably. Our exchange point is 3,2 km away, therefore we can only reach between 4000 and 6000 kb/s.

Because I wanted to highest speed possible (who wouldn’t) I bought the D-Link 502T Generation II DSL modem (on eBay.com.au).
Since last night, I was trying to connect both modems, because I wanted the full speed of my internet line, which I reach with the Australian DSL modem, but I didn’t want to miss my Fritzbox wireless internet and the VOIP (voice over IP), because I have two phone numbers set up in my Fritzbox, a German number, so that people from home can call me cheap or for free (with a flatrate to german fixed phone numbers, pretty common these days).
I know, it sounds quite confusing for someone who is not in it.

I am totally in it, a bit exhausted but HAPPY! Learning by doing, as usual the best training!

And my man is proud of me, again. I’m his computer chick, he accepted and lives with it. What would he do without, anyway? Saved him and us a lot of money for an Australian wireless DSL modem with VOIP integrated, which also needs to have all the features that my Fritzbox has. Ok, and I love my Fritzbox.

Mission accomplished!

I have wireless Internet again, can use my phone with the two numbers, use the advantages of my Fritzbox settings (like the the night setting where phone is automatically turned off, the nice online traffic counter, modem reports via email, setting of two alarm clocks and let the phone ring me up in the morning, the awesome software display design (D-Link looks like 1995!) etc.), but still I am surfing over the Aussie D-Link modem with the higher speed.

The only thing, I don’t know if the speed I am reaching now, is correct…I measured it with speedtest.net and it said 0.27 Mb/s download… My Aussie modem is receiving 6853 kb/s, which would be over 6Mb/s, or am I wrong?

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