ADSL2 enabled exchanges?

[Tom Parker]

Hopefully this will improve the signal to phishing ratio.

Does anyone know how you would find out if your exchange is ADSL2
enabled? I did some searches and didn't come up with anything useful.

I've got a very old 3Com duallink modem and it while it works great, I
only get about 2Mb on a good day. I don't really want to upgrade to a
new modem unless my exchange has been upgraded.

Thanks.

[Mark Foster]

Ask your ISP?
Or is that too obvious?

Post by Tom Parker
Hopefully this will improve the signal to phishing ratio.
Does anyone know how you would find out if your exchange is ADSL2
enabled? I did some searches and didn't come up with anything useful.
I've got a very old 3Com duallink modem and it while it works great, I
only get about 2Mb on a good day. I don't really want to upgrade to a
new modem unless my exchange has been upgraded.
Thanks.
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[Raimund Eimann]

Post by Tom Parker
Hopefully this will improve the signal to phishing ratio.
Does anyone know how you would find out if your exchange is ADSL2
enabled? I did some searches and didn't come up with anything useful.

The exchange in Mount Albert Road, near the Buckley Road intersection has
been "upgraded" on 13 December 2007. The perfect ADSL connection I had until
then keeps going down ever since on a regular basis (broken PVC).

Post by Tom Parker
I've got a very old 3Com duallink modem and it while it works great, I
only get about 2Mb on a good day. I don't really want to upgrade to a
new modem unless my exchange has been upgraded.

I'm using a Nokia M1122. The connection is approx. 6-7 Mbps, but I'm in the
close neighborhood of the exchange.

Whatever you do: Don't buy a Dynalink RTA1320 (the little ADSL2+ boxes Orcon
gives you for free if you choose to stay with them for 12 months). They are
broken by design. I got to know two of these units, one of them my own. My
friend's unit died after 2 months, my one (according to Dynalink an improved
version) died after 5 days.

Cheers,
Raimund

[B K Campbell]

See http://www.telecom.co.nz/binarys/adsl2%20080131.pdf

At 02:16 a.m. 10-02-2008, you wrote:
....
Does anyone know how you would find out if your exchange is ADSL2
enabled? I did some searches and didn't come up with anything useful.
....

[Tom Parker]

Cheers, that is exactly what I'm looking for.

I'll go get a new modem now.

Post by B K Campbell
See http://www.telecom.co.nz/binarys/adsl2%20080131.pdf
....
Does anyone know how you would find out if your exchange is ADSL2
enabled? I did some searches and didn't come up with anything useful.
....
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[Biff]

Ok, my exchange is on the list, can anyone recommend a good modem/router
please?
I'm currently running an Alcatel Speed Touch Pro and it's been faultless for
years, it NAT's and has a DHCP Server built in, I would like to replace it
with something equally as reliable.
Cheers
Biff

[Steve Barr]

I use a 3Com Officeconnect wireless ADSL modem router. It is extremely
reliable, gives good connection speed and has a lot good features including
SPI firewall, NAT, DHCP etc etc. Model is 3CRWDR101A-75.

Steve
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Post by Biff
Ok, my exchange is on the list, can anyone recommend a good modem/router
please?
I'm currently running an Alcatel Speed Touch Pro and it's been faultless for
years, it NAT's and has a DHCP Server built in, I would like to replace it
with something equally as reliable.
Cheers
Biff
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[Tim Boobyer]

Post by Biff
Ok, my exchange is on the list, can anyone recommend a good modem/router
please?
I'm currently running an Alcatel Speed Touch Pro and it's been faultless for
years, it NAT's and has a DHCP Server built in, I would like to replace it
with something equally as reliable.
Cheers
Biff

I would also be interested in a new ADSL2 router, as I also have a
trusty Speed Touch Pro. The feature I love in the Speedtouch is the
ability to use PPTP to connect to it and get the real world IP address
- are there any modems around now that have this same ability?

[Jp Wise]

Wow, I'm surprised, they've even done my exchange aswell, July last year
apparently.

I'm in exactly the same setup as Tim, Speed Touch Pro running PPTP to
get a real world address on a linux router. Anyone had much feedback
about ADSL2 equivalent modems?

Thx.
Jp.

Post by Tim Boobyer

Post by Biff
Ok, my exchange is on the list, can anyone recommend a good modem/router
please?
I'm currently running an Alcatel Speed Touch Pro and it's been faultless for
years, it NAT's and has a DHCP Server built in, I would like to replace it
with something equally as reliable.
Cheers
Biff

I would also be interested in a new ADSL2 router, as I also have a
trusty Speed Touch Pro. The feature I love in the Speedtouch is the
ability to use PPTP to connect to it and get the real world IP address
- are there any modems around now that have this same ability?
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[Alex King]

I'm not familiar with any adsl2 modems which use pptp to pass the real
world IP back to you linux box.

However, some (many?) of the adsl2 devices allow you to set an internal
machine as a "DMZ Host", which forwards inbound packets which are not
part of an existing connection to a specified machine on the internal
network. This can probably do 99% of what you need.

Another thing I have found is that many of these devices are running
linux/iptables underneath, so if you can't do what you want to do
through the web interface, you can ssh (or telnet in some cases) to the
device and run iptables commands yourself to set up what you need, if
you're familiar with that. I've done this more than once.

The problem is then repeating this every time the router looses power.
You probably need a script on your internal box to detect that and use
expect to log into the router and run your iptables commands automatically.

In theory those boxes should have the firmware source and toolchain
available and you should be able to build a new firmware to do what you
want, but alas I don't have the time to work out stuff like that anymore.

Cheers,
Alex

Post by Jp Wise
Wow, I'm surprised, they've even done my exchange aswell, July last year
apparently.
I'm in exactly the same setup as Tim, Speed Touch Pro running PPTP to
get a real world address on a linux router. Anyone had much feedback
about ADSL2 equivalent modems?
Thx.
Jp.

Post by Tim Boobyer

Post by Biff
Ok, my exchange is on the list, can anyone recommend a good modem/router
please?
I'm currently running an Alcatel Speed Touch Pro and it's been faultless for
years, it NAT's and has a DHCP Server built in, I would like to replace it
with something equally as reliable.
Cheers
Biff

I would also be interested in a new ADSL2 router, as I also have a
trusty Speed Touch Pro. The feature I love in the Speedtouch is the
ability to use PPTP to connect to it and get the real world IP address
- are there any modems around now that have this same ability?
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[Tet Yoon Lee]

Post by Jp Wise
Wow, I'm surprised, they've even done my exchange aswell, July last year
apparently.
I'm in exactly the same setup as Tim, Speed Touch Pro running PPTP to
get a real world address on a linux router. Anyone had much feedback
about ADSL2 equivalent modems?

I believe the newer Thompson SpeedTouch with ADSL2+ support continue to support PPPoA with PPtP passthrough. I haven't looked into this in that much detail though, my M1122 is still good enough as I don't need ADSL2+ support at the current time:-P

Cheers

[Jp Wise]

Hi Tet, thanks for that, I'll have to look into it later on.

I've got the Speedtouch Home (not pro - just eyeballed it to confirm),
and the PPTP is useful for the firewalling, since it's a real world
address it's handling the traffic directly, you can log or drop what you
want, and deal with the real world address, not the NAT'd address. I
know at the time I set it up there weren't many that supported passing
the real world address through, especially without using a PCI card in
the PC itself.

Jp.

Post by Tet Yoon Lee

Post by Jp Wise
Wow, I'm surprised, they've even done my exchange aswell, July last year
apparently.
I'm in exactly the same setup as Tim, Speed Touch Pro running PPTP to
get a real world address on a linux router. Anyone had much feedback
about ADSL2 equivalent modems?

I believe the newer Thompson SpeedTouch with ADSL2+ support continue to support PPPoA with PPtP passthrough. I haven't looked into this in that much detail though, my M1122 is still good enough as I don't need ADSL2+ support at the current time:-P
Cheers
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[Richard]

I thought the same, but 3.1 megs, or just on 4 with the tweeks on the
dynalink are much better then the 1.7-2.3 that my m1122 gave me. And pings
are lower too.

And the 200ish extra upstream really helps with seeding.

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Post by Jp Wise
Wow, I'm surprised, they've even done my exchange aswell, July last year
apparently.
I'm in exactly the same setup as Tim, Speed Touch Pro running PPTP to
get a real world address on a linux router. Anyone had much feedback
about ADSL2 equivalent modems?

I believe the newer Thompson SpeedTouch with ADSL2+ support continue to
support PPPoA with PPtP passthrough. I haven't looked into this in that much
detail though, my M1122 is still good enough as I don't need ADSL2+ support
at the current time:-P

[Tet Yoon Lee]

Post by Richard
I thought the same, but 3.1 megs, or just on 4 with the tweeks on the
dynalink are much better then the 1.7-2.3 that my m1122 gave me. And pings
are lower too.
And the 200ish extra upstream really helps with seeding.

Not an issue since I'm limited to 2mbit/128k which my current modem is more then capable of achieving and I use m0n0wall as my firewall/router so I'm doubtful pings will be different. Plus I believe the Dynalink doesn't support PPtP passthrough