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

[Jonathan Thorpe]

Hi Ross,

I've had a lot of success with the DrayTek Vigor 120s bridged to MikroTik equipment doing PPPoE, however they're only ADSL and won't do SHDSL. There's a new Vigor 130 which does VDSL2, but again, no SHDSL.

I would consider DrayTek as better than typical consumer grade (i.e. TP-Link), but it may be a stretch to consider them enterprise (but then again, so is the very nature of ADSL).

Kind Regards,
Jonathan

-----Original Message-----
From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Ross Wheeler
Sent: Thursday, 26 February 2015 10:56 AM
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Subject: [AusNOG] "Business grade" ADSL bare-modem or media converter.


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.
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