Most reliable USB ADSL modem?
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From: Ian Rawlings on 20 Dec 2007 14:26 Hello all, does anyone have any good experience using USB ADSL modems? I'm hitting the same problem I had with the last ADSL dedicated router, it falling over on a regular basis. I cured that by getting an ADSL PCI card for my home firewall but now I have a remote site that has a mac mini installed, so need a USB ADSL modem. I may well put a similar setup in at home too (the mac minis are very small, cheap and quiet). The machine has to be a full unix box, I can't use a router running linux like a linksys. -- Blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire!
From: Will Kemp on 20 Dec 2007 14:34 On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:26:47 +0000, Ian Rawlings wrote: > Hello all, does anyone have any good experience using USB ADSL modems? > I'm hitting the same problem I had with the last ADSL dedicated router, > it falling over on a regular basis. I cured that by getting an ADSL PCI > card for my home firewall but now I have a remote site that has a mac > mini installed, so need a USB ADSL modem. I may well put a similar > setup in at home too (the mac minis are very small, cheap and quiet). > The machine has to be a full unix box, I can't use a router running > linux like a linksys. USB modems are rubbish. End of story, i'm afraid. I don't understand why you can't use an ethernet router though. No ethernet connector on the machine? What about a USB ethernet dongle (do they make them? they must, surely...) Don't want to use the ethernet modem to do the connection? What about using it in bridge mode and doing PPP via the ethernet link to it? Or another reason?
From: Ian Rawlings on 20 Dec 2007 15:41 On 2007-12-20, Will Kemp <Will(a)xxxx.Swaggie.net> wrote: > USB modems are rubbish. End of story, i'm afraid. Which ones have you tried? > I don't understand why you can't use an ethernet router though. Fine, I don't want to and went through the reasons before and in other threads many moons ago, and don't want to go through it all again, so if anyone knows of a known reliable USB ADSL modem I'd be interested. -- Blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire!
From: fabian on 20 Dec 2007 16:44 Ian Rawlings uttered these words of wisdom: > Hello all, does anyone have any good experience using USB ADSL modems? I know you will get the standard advice which is to use an ethernet modem. However I have been using an IPCOP box with USB ADSL modem for getting on for two years with no problems, either speed or reliability. The brand is Sagem F(a)st 800, dirt cheap on ebay. IPCOP supports this device with the Eagle USB ADSL driver, whereas other standard distributions may not. I'm not sure of the maximum speed the F(a)st 800 will run at but it appears to be around 8Mbps. Regards Fabian -- "Religion is a result of primal urges, and I hope that it, like murder and septic personal hygiene, becomes unfashionable." [Brian Hayward]
From: Ian Rawlings on 20 Dec 2007 16:51
On 2007-12-20, fabian <fabian(a)null.void> wrote: > Ian Rawlings uttered these words of wisdom: >> Hello all, does anyone have any good experience using USB ADSL modems? > > I know you will get the standard advice which is to use an ethernet > modem. However I have been using an IPCOP box with USB ADSL modem for > getting on for two years with no problems, either speed or reliability. Aha, thanks for that, I'll have a look into it. The Thompson ST330 appears to be OK too despite some slagging off in a few posts from people who have comfessed to never having had one or who, from what they've said, don't know which end to plug the leads into. > The brand is Sagem F(a)st 800, dirt cheap on ebay. IPCOP supports this > device with the Eagle USB ADSL driver, whereas other standard > distributions may not. The plan is to get a few and play with them, I suspect they don't cost much. Cheers, I'll look into the Sagem, I've seen the name in some other posts regarding successes with linux. BTW what kind of use to you subject the thing to, long, sustained downloads/uploads as in peer-to-peer traffic, or short-term quick connections like web browsing or port scanning? The modem shouldn't care what's going across it, I was thinking more about sustained data rates. -- Blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire! |