[AusNOG] "Business grade" ADSL bare-modem or media converter.

[Ben Cooper]

http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/?categoryid=220&model=TD-8817

For the price, in bridge mode these are quite well paired with a dialer,
mikrotik/juniprer/cisco.

They use the chipsets from a billion so they scream. however, their
fib/firewall/natting is horrid, so bridge mode only!

Cheers
Ben

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Beeson, Ayden <ABeeson at csu.edu.au> wrote:

> +1 to this.
>
> Only "home grade" gear I have seen that genuinely works well, it's my
> current recommendation for all people who ask me.
>
> Thanks,
> Ayden Beeson
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Paul
> Jones
> Sent: Thursday, 26 February 2015 3:31 PM
> To: Karl Auer; ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] "Business grade" ADSL bare-modem or media converter.
>
> I have been quite surprised at TP-Link gear. Despite usually being the
> cheapest I have so far not had any trouble with any of their devices,
> either firmware or hardware. Admittedly my sample size is < 50 so far, but
> I'd rate them SOHO for sure. Like you say, keep a spare on hand just incase.
>
> Paul.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Karl
> Auer
> Sent: Thursday, 26 February 2015 3:13 PM
> To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] "Business grade" ADSL bare-modem or media converter.
>
> On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 10:56 +1100, Ross Wheeler wrote:
> > Looking for a semi-decent, bare-bones, ADSL (ideally capable of SHDSL
> > or BDSL etc if the provider can do it) modem.
>
> For bang for buck, I always recommend the TP-Link 8817. One ethernet, one
> ADSL, one USB, you pay for nothing extra, comes in bridge mode by default.
> Pretty much perfect. Cheap enough to self-insure, and so far I've never had
> a dud (touch wood). They run pretty cool, and they remain addressable on
> their LAN IP address even in bridge mode. You can "tap"
> them by attaching to the USB port. I use them with MikroTiks and have had
> no problems. Anecdotally they are middle-of-the road as far as performance
> is concerned. One very slight downside is they take longer to train/retrain
> than some modems I've seen.
>
> I would anti-recommend NetGear because their support for bridging mode is
> patchy through non-existent in my experience, though I don't have an
> encyclopaedic knowledge of all their models.
>
> Regards, K.
>
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