On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Craig via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Is there something better than the typical consumer DSL modems? Or are > they now good enough? (Maybe I ought to resurrect our Cisco PIX-501 > firewall.)
I have a Cisco router with the DSL line card. It was nice but I had no performance benefit over the consumer DSL modem, and it frustrated the customer service folks to no end. I ended up putting a Netgear/Westell 7550 in switching mode and it works just fine; it has been up for several years straight now. In Durham we were right on the end of a long line, and I did not see any noise benefit with the Cisco versus the Netgear. Given that I got two 7550s for less than the price of the line card at a thrift store, and the power utilization is much lower, I would recommend them (or the 7500, which is the same but with no wireless - and BTW you should turn off the wireless because it's awful). To be honest I'd not be too worried about the performance of any legacy DSL modem, they might differ at the distance boundaries but I'm not sure your telco will sell you that speed anyway. VDSL/ADSL2+ are different but AT&T won't let you bring your modem, so I haven't really looked into it. Best, Tim _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
