[plug] adsl opinions

[Craig Ringer]

> I thought the Dlink DSL300 was cool when I first saw it, however it's
> really a piece of shit. If you get one operate it in bridged mode and
> use roaring penguin (PPPoE) on the linux box. You get a lot less dodgy
> routing issues that way.

... but it is still a crap modem. Westnet have given up on D-Link 
recently and are apparently shipping Alcatel from now on :-) . The test 
DSL-500 they were going to send me has morphed magically into an alcatel 
router *grin* which I hope will fix my line sync dropout problems.

My point: The DSL-300 is, in fact, a piece of shit. I know several 
people (including Computer Angels) using the DSL-500 with good 
reliability but NEVER EVER USE THE CONSOLE since it apparently corrupts 
its own configuration.

> iiNet DSL is the easiest I've set up so far, after making sure your
> modem is in bridged mode, use pppoeconf, it works like a charm and you
> don't have to touch the config files.

Ditto westnet and basically every other ISP now since they're all using 
Telstra's "layer 2" ppooe-tunneled DSL services.


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