[plug] adsl opinions

[Andrew Howell]

I've been using my DSL300 in bridged mode (we don't use PPPoE thank god)
no problems for months. The only outages I have are when there is a DSL
outage.

Andrew

On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 12:06, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > 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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