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

[Beeson, Ayden]

+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

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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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