[AusNOG] Reliable (IPv6-supporting) ADSL2+ CPE

[Tom Berryman]

Hi Julien,
We support (unfortunately!) a few hundred CPE routers over ADSL (1, 2 and Annex-M) with a variety of carriers. I know that Cisco don't necessarily use the best ADSL modems for their HWICs however every time we stray from a Cisco CPE headaches result. For us, its not just the quality of the ADSL card, but the feature diversity we obviously get from a Cisco device, the universal carrier support and the diagnostic output available for my technicians.
We operate a mix of 887(with and without W option) and legacy 877, 1841, 1921 (huge improvement for noise levels over 1800 series), and 2811 CPE devices- we have a 2811 CPE with over 2 years uptime and ADSL sync for 6 weeks with no deviation on speed, impressive but not isolated. Today the 1921-ADSL would be our most popular and widely used CPE, to date we have had a zero failure rate on them too. Not too expensive and available with all DSL varieties, also leaves your customers the option to move to say metro-ethernet or fibre and keep their router.
Tom.


-----Original Message-----
From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Julien Goodwin
Sent: Monday, 10 December 2012 6:56 PM
To: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: [AusNOG] Reliable (IPv6-supporting) ADSL2+ CPE

What are people deploying for reliable ADSL CPE these days?

I moved from an 1841 (stable, but loud and slow with only an ADSL1 WIC) to a FritzBox 7930 about a year ago and am just about fed up with the thing crashing every few weeks which seems mostly related to the horrible state of the copper around here (Ultimo).

As I want IPv6 support Juniper are out, does that leave only the Cisco 887?
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