BT adsl modem is USB - are there any affordable ethernet modems?

[Fat Tone]

A friend is setting up BT's broadand ADSL service. I advised him to get a hardware firewall/router, which he did (Netgear RP114).
Now his modem has arrived, it seems it only has USB, no ethernet option! After a trawl through the various shopping sites I haven't found any affordable ethernet modems. Surely they must exist? The routers are designed for dsl or cable.

Any suggestions please?

T.

[ayoub_ibrahim]

http://www.adslguide.org/hardware/reviews/2001/q4/draytek_vigor2200usb.asp

[Fat Tone]

Thanks Ayoub, that's a useful site. That DrayTek device is rather expensive!

I also found a Samsung Ethernet DSL modem at www.scan.co.uk for £55.23 which I think would replace the BT modem nicely, but I think my friend would rathe replace the router.

Cheers

Tony.

[RichL]

You could always use a scrappy old Pentium PC and a copy of Winroute as your gateway box.

My gateway system runs Winroute Pro 4.1, McAffee AntiVirus (Vers 6) and Zonealarm on Windows98 using a Pentium120, with 128mb ram and two network cards (I'm using an ethernet cable modem)
Its too damn slow to do just about anything else on, but it works fine as a gateway box.

[Fat Tone]

Thanks for the suggestion RichL. but it's not very practical for him to do that.

This was all so simple with cable connections!

I've started another thread with a better title.

Cheers

T.

[breezer]

https://www.solwise.co.uk

[[Ch]amsalot]

Sigh!

Tony! I know it's my fault for not checking this thread that you referenced in your other thread, but yeesh! I just wasted 15 minutes (I'm on dial up) researching for you a USB router when Ayoub found the same damn thing.

Please keep your related posts in one thread.

-[Ch]ams

[Fat Tone]

Sorry for the wasted time Chammy, but as you said I did reference this post. I started a new one because (a) there were very few replies to this and (b) I am surprised at USB being used and with there being so many of us old timers on here shareing broadband I wanted to know how they do it, which is a different question.

Thanks for taking the trouble anyway.


Tony.

[Wombat]

What model is his modem? A lot of "USB" modems are actually ethernet cards inside, with little adapters to make them USB.

[Fat Tone]

Wombat - it's the Alcatel Speedtouch USB. I got this snippet from ADSLguide.org.uk:

Can I use a USB to Ethernet adapter to connect the [Alcatel] USB modem to my network?

With the current adapters you cant, the USB modem is the DSL equivalent of a WinModem and requires some processor power to perform the modem functions and convert the ATM data into TCP/IP for presentation to the PC. There is a Draytek device however which can effetively act as a router and presents ethernet to the user side.