Re: ADSL Modem recomendations

[Haralambos Geortgilakis <haralambos@ihug.co.nz>]

Hi all & Bill,

who typed,

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> Hello all,
>    the company I work for has decided to host some Internet services 
> (mail and web) through a DSL link. We were planning on using the telco 
> provided router, but the router (a 3Com OCR612) has proven to be very 
> unreliable when it comes to allowing external access to internal 
> services.
>    So does anyone have a modem or router that they can recommend for 
> use with Debian? I'd prefer to use a PCI modem, but I'm open to 
> anything. BTW telco uses PPPoA (RFC2364).
>    Does anyone have any experience with the Alcatel SpeedTouch modem 
> under Debian Woody? It's the other modem the telco offers, I have 
> grave reservations using a USB modem for mission critical tasks.
>
> Thanks for any advice people,
> Bill
>
> FYI 3Com instability 
> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,5925248~root=equip,1~mode=flat 

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I've a SpeedStream 3060 PCI card & there is no Tux support. Ergo, I use 
a Crash98 Boxen as my gateway. While the ADSL modem is cheap, just don't 
look forward to crash free surfing....

Oh, there have been *rumours* of a Tuxian driver on the net for a couple 
of years now, so this beastie may have surfaced since my last 
pilgrimage. If so, please correct my error....

*HTH*

Greek Geek   :-)


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