-=> Quoting Michel Samson to Nancy Backus <=-

 MS> and here's what i found when i began looking for a perfect router: 
 MS> most major brands have a model with at least one ~RS-232~ Serial-Port
 MS> besides the ~EtherNet~ outlets, euh...
 MS> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 8-o

I have a LinkSys BEFSR-41 4-port Router and it does not have any RS-232 
ports on it. I can't speak for other routers but your findings do surprise me,
as I would expect these days everything was all WAN/LAN style connectors, even
to connect two computers together. Seems IIRC, WAN/LAN was a higher transfer
rate than what RS-232 could accomplish.

 MS> Hummm...  And now you must be wondering, what good is that
 MS> ~RS-232~ Serial-Port found at the back of a router?  :^)  Well, it
 MS> makes a DialUp MoDem (or two!) work for ALL machines tied to a ~LAN~. 

I never saw these before either. Usually, I assumed that the router was 
connected to a server machine or hub, which had a dial-up modem in it and 
connected to the internet. Other computers connected to the router via WAN/LAN
connectors would then be able to access that hub computer's internet connection.
But the hub computer would still be connected to the Router via the WAN/LAN
plugs, not an RS-232 interface. I didn't know they could connect direct to
the router via RS-232. I don't know if that would be very fast throughput even.

Tika


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