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[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

I did, and to return the favor, I'll suggest you Google for Rube
Goldberg.

I'm sorry: I meant "return the favour"

Thanks - Heath Robinson is new to me, and he looks like fun.

You might also enjoy ... well, see Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Branestawm
I remember enjoying the stories when a child, but I _think_ they're OK
for adults too. I always assumed they'd just been written around Heath
Robinson's drawings, but according to the above, HR actually illustrated
at least some of them.

 

[Ed Cryer]

I did, and to return the favor, I'll suggest you Google for Rube
Goldberg.

I'm sorry: I meant "return the favour"

Thanks - Heath Robinson is new to me, and he looks like fun.

There's a WC Fields film where he's walking down the street and there's
a car with the bonnet up and the driver head in the innards. So WC
stands there scratching his head for a while, and then humbly suggests
that he might consider putting air in the tyres.

I've just found it on youtube;

Ed

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

You might also enjoy ... well, see Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Branestawm
I remember enjoying the stories when a child, but I _think_ they're OK
for adults too. I always assumed they'd just been written around Heath
Robinson's drawings, but according to the above, HR actually illustrated
at least some of them.

Thanks. I'll look in a minute, but I wanted to add that when I Googled
earlier, I also saw some of Heath Robinson's serious illustrations
online, particularly for Beauty and the Beast, and I thought they were
really neat.

 

[Char Jackson]

Judging from your comments the situation in USA must be very different
from in the UK.
The vast majority of people here have a router-modem, supplied with a bb
package from an ISP. My guesstimate would be that this cover well over
99% of users. Many are left with several units after switching ISPs.

I talked with a fellow from Australia a while back and he reported the same
thing for his area. Lots of DSL, very little cable. Lots of combo units,
very few standalone units. You're right, the combo units are relatively
scarce here in the States, fortunately. Given a choice, I would never take a
combo unit. If forced to take a combo unit, I would try to make it
transparent, (bridge mode), so that I could use my own router.

It falls rather reluctantly on UK ears to be advised to purchase another
router for the express purpose of being able to monitor traffic through
the already installed one; as well as then having to install different
firmware in the new one.

No worries. You asked how to measure all of that disparate traffic on your
Internet connection and I think I gave you the best solution. That's all I
can do. To me, there's something very appealing about having full control
over my networking gear.

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <[email protected]>, Char Jackson

I talked with a fellow from Australia a while back and he reported the same
thing for his area. Lots of DSL, very little cable. Lots of combo units,
very few standalone units. You're right, the combo units are relatively
scarce here in the States, fortunately. Given a choice, I would never take a
combo unit. If forced to take a combo unit, I would try to make it
transparent, (bridge mode), so that I could use my own router.

Each to his own; some people don't want to have two boxes. (And two
power supplies.) And either aren't worried about the total throughput,
or are willing to just use the monitoring provided by their provider.

No worries. You asked how to measure all of that disparate traffic on your
Internet connection and I think I gave you the best solution. That's all I
can do. To me, there's something very appealing about having full control
over my networking gear.

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