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

[Ross Wheeler]

Looking for a semi-decent, bare-bones, ADSL (ideally capable of SHDSL or 
BDSL etc if the provider can do it) modem.

I'm sick of trying to support much of the rubbish that people bring, and 
have a sizable semi-government customer about to do a major infrastructure 
upgrade. They're rolling out Mikrotik gear for switches, WAPs, routers 
etc, across about 40 sites. Several sites have only ADSL, some have 
multiple ADSL or ADSL+BDSL (SHDSL) services. Those where the provider 
already includes CPE are not an issue, we just consider the service as 
"delivered via ethernet". The others however, have a mishmash of 
consumer-grade adsl modems (many of them are "all-in-one" 
modem/router/wap/firewall/vpn and of course don't do any of them 
particularly well). Now is the time to drop something in that might 
enhance their network and connectivity stability.

As the Mikrotik can do PPPoE, even something completely brain-dead would 
do the job as a media-converter. Stability/reliability probably top 
of the feature list, performance next, ease of configuration (if required) 
next, mechanical/environmental robustness and price are significant 
considerations, and of course they need to be reasonably readily 
available.

What are people using and having no problems with?
(Offlist is fine, although googling this seems to find a whole lot of 
people asking similar questions with no clear answer and a lot of 
contradictory responses - so there may be SOME interest in it)

R.