I've found the Alcatel Speed Touch ADSL modems, and the Cisco (800 series, IIRC) to be fairly reliable.
The main area where I find you should really spend some money is on the router at your end of the connection: either a good Linux machine running IPRoute 2, or proper Intel / Cisco gear. Netgear now have per seat licensing on some of their routers, and they have trouble port forwarding on the latest firmware. USRobotics Routers crash all the time and the support is shocking - avoid them like the plague. Mike On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 17:35, Brendan Dacre wrote: > Brad, Edwin, > > Thankyou both for your emphatic replies. You seem to both be in > agreement about the internal D-Link and Edwin has doubts about the > Dynalink as well. > > So, what external device would I get? > > The D-Link DSL-300 ADSL Ethernet Modem (approx $300) is one possibility > which seems common and is explicitly supported by my proposed ISP. > > Another possibility is the D-Link DSL-504 ADSL Router with 4 Built-in > Switched Ports (approx $400) which would mean I don't have to worry > about drivers (the login software would be in firmware in the box > itself, I presume) or setting up a gateway box. It does NAT and packet > and socket filtering (fairly primitively I imagine) but it would be > enough if you didn't plan to let any unsolicited traffic into your > network. The drawback is that I would lose some of the functionality of > the box if I wanted to create a DMZ for an externally available server. > > Suggestions about other models and brands would be appreciated. > > TIA. > > Brendan > > Brad Thomson wrote: (with some editing by me... Brendan) > > On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 02:30, Brendan Dacre wrote: > > > >>Gentlepeople, > >> > >>For one reason or another I have decided rather ahead of my planned > >>schedule to go broadband (probably iiNet, comments...). > >> > >>I was planning to get a D-Link DSL-100D PCI internal ADSL modem which I > >>can pick up for about $170. > > > > > > Don't. Pay the extra for an external modem. > > > > > >>Am I making a mistake getting an internal ADSL modem, i.e. should I > >>consider one of those modem routers which are quite a bit more expensive? > > > > > > Yes, a mistake. > > > > > > > > Brad. > > > > > Edwin Humphries wrote: > > We've used 2 internal modems, the one from D-Link and the other from > Dynalink. They both use the > > same chipset, but the D-Link driver for the 2.4.x kernel seems to > result only in kernel panic; the > > 2.2.x driver is fine, but obviously limits you as to what version of > Linux you want to use; eg, no > > iptables firewall on the gateway. The 2.4.x driver for the Dynalink > modem seems to work OK - most > > of the time. However, I'd have to say that in all the systems we've > installed, external enternet > > modems seem to be the most reliable - sometimes the internal modems > fail to give a reliable > > connection no matter what. > > > > On 22 Sep 2002 at 2:30, Brendan Dacre wrote: > > > > > >>Gentlepeople, > >> > eetc... > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- ____________________________________________________________________________ Mike MacCana Support Consultant RHCE, MCSE, MCP+I Cybersource: Providing Quality IT Professional Services for 11 Years Specialists in Unix/Linux, TCP/IP and Web Application Development Level 9, 140 Queen St, Melbourne. Ph : 03 9642 5997 Fax: 03 9642 5998 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
