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

[Karl Auer]

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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