Best model ADSL USB External modem ?

[David McNeill]

Rumor has it that _elecom have finally decided to put ADSL on our exchange,
09 2927xxx

One of the closest rural exchanges south of Auckland City, how many years
has ADSL been available....? Could be something to do with Wired Country
building more new towers out here [Pollok Road - Clarks Beach], but none
quite reach my place, [very sad].

Anyway, I'm running IPCop router 1.3, soon to be the newly released 1.4 on a
MiniITX compact flash box. It's really good, so reliable, quiet, flexible.

I'm going to get an external USB ADSL modem for it, and wanted to buy a
really reliable, well-made, good driver one.

We're at the outer limit of ADSL distance, so one that is good on a long
reach would be nice.

Can anyone comment on the most reliable/capable brand & model of ADSL modem?

DaveMc



David McNeill
McPond eCommerce Software

[Nicholas Lee]

Post by David McNeill
Can anyone comment on the most reliable/capable brand & model of ADSL modem?

I had a speedtouch blue stingray usb modem, handing off a nexcom box
running openbsd. When things were fine it worked well, but quite often I
had to get the modem reset by pulling the usb plug waiting for 60s and
re-plugging it.


I replaced it last month with a DSE external modem, that does the dhcp
half-bridging trick. This is much more stable and easier to reset
remotely.

Also I'm moving away from IPSec based VPNs to ssl (openvpn.sf.net) based
VPNs. So my only real need for a public IPs on the core router is for
voip.

Nicholas

[support]

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ALCATEL NZ - ADSL TECHNICAL SUPPORT CENTRE
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Hi Dave,

With being at the limit for ADSL, you will probably want to look more
towards the router direction.

We have a SpeedTouch 530, which has 1 ethernet and 1 USB connection. But
because it has its own power supply, it will help overcome the distance
problem you may run into with a USB powered modem.
The router can be setup in Relayed PPPoA mode, which allow it to act the
same as a modem. However, this requires PPPoA authentication through a
PPTP connection. Please make sure that the IPCop can setup a PPPoA
connection, as most units can only handle PPPoE. If this is a problem,
the router can be setup in DHCP Spoofing mode, which leaves the
authentication in the router, but passes the public IP address and all
traffic to the IPCop.

Information on this router and where to purchase one from can be found
at www.speedtouch.net.nz or by calling 0800 25 22 835 and selecting
option 2.


Regards,

Brent Marquis
Customer support engineer,
ADSL technical support centre.

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Sent: Thursday, 14 October 2004 4:31 p.m.

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Subject: Best model ADSL USB External modem ?

Rumor has it that _elecom have finally decided to put ADSL on our
exchange,

09 2927xxx

One of the closest rural exchanges south of Auckland City, how many
years

has ADSL been available....? Could be something to do with Wired Country

building more new towers out here [Pollok Road - Clarks Beach], but none
quite reach my place, [very sad].

Anyway, I'm running IPCop router 1.3, soon to be the newly released 1.4
on a MiniITX compact flash box. It's really good, so reliable, quiet,
flexible.

I'm going to get an external USB ADSL modem for it, and wanted to buy a
really reliable, well-made, good driver one.

We're at the outer limit of ADSL distance, so one that is good on a long
reach would be nice.

Can anyone comment on the most reliable/capable brand & model of ADSL
modem?

DaveMc





David McNeill

McPond eCommerce Software





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[David McNeill]

Thanks for that.

I purchased a Speedtouch 530 from Infortek (less than $200)

Works well as a router, with 1660kb DSL line speed down. Not bad for 6km's
approx. Interestingly the Telecom (downer) install tech’s M1122 could only
get 730kb or so. 1.5 km's up the road at the A cabinet he had to by-pass, he
could get 2500kb link.

After letting it settle in on router mode, I needed to get the public IP
onto the IPCop box for IPSEC VPN, No-ip, better snort logging.

Changed it over to DHCP Spoofing mode as you recommend,
(NZ_RtPPPoA_dhcp_spoof.ini) from www.speedtouch.net.nz

Changed IPCop RED to DHCP, and it worked – ipcop has the public
222.152.253.* ip.

From what I read there wasn’t much chance of getting it going on USB mode

with IPCop, most of the docs talk about the Speedtouch Pro, 330 or Home.

You’re right, I couldn’t get bridge mode and ipcop doing the authentication
working, even though the docs said it could be done, and the ipcop 1.4
release talks about Speedtouch PPPoE(oA). There’s no good docs on it
anywhere I could find.

Thanks for your help.

DaveMc


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 ALCATEL NZ - ADSL TECHNICAL SUPPORT CENTRE
 P.O. Box 62518, Kalmia St, Ellerslie,  Auckland,   Ph [phone]  / 
Fax [phone]
________________________________________


Hi Dave,

With being at the limit for ADSL, you will probably want to look more
towards the router direction.

We have a SpeedTouch 530, which has 1 ethernet and 1 USB connection. But
because it has its own power supply, it will help overcome the distance
problem you may run into with a USB powered modem.
The router can be setup in Relayed PPPoA mode, which allow it to act the
same as a modem.  However, this requires PPPoA authentication through
a PPTP connection.  Please make sure that the IPCop can setup a PPPoA
connection, as most units can only handle PPPoE.  If this is a problem, the
router can be setup in DHCP Spoofing mode, which leaves the authentication
in the router, but passes the public IP address and all traffic to
the IPCop.

Information on this router and where to purchase one from can be found at
www.speedtouch.net.nz or  by calling 0800 25 22 835 and selecting option 2.
 
 
Regards,
 
Brent Marquis
Customer support engineer,
ADSL technical support centre.
Ph:[phone]
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From: owner-***@unixathome.org [mailto:owner-***@unixathome.org] On Behalf
Of David McNeill
Sent: Thursday, 14 October 2004 4:31 p.m.
To: support
Subject: Best model ADSL USB External modem ?
Rumor has it that _elecom have finally decided to put ADSL on our exchange,
09 2927xxx
One of the closest rural exchanges south of Auckland City, how many years
has ADSL been available....? Could be something to do with Wired Country
building more new towers out here [Pollok Road - Clarks Beach], but none
quite reach my place, [very sad].
Anyway, I'm running IPCop router 1.3, soon to be the newly released 1.4 on a
MiniITX compact flash box. It's really good, so reliable, quiet, flexible.
I'm going to get an external USB ADSL modem for it, and wanted to buy a
really reliable, well-made, good driver one.
We're at the outer limit of ADSL distance, so one that is good on a long
reach would be nice.
Can anyone comment on the most reliable/capable brand & model of ADSL modem?
DaveMc
 
 
David McNeill
McPond eCommerce Software
 
 
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[LEE Tet Yoon]

Post by David McNeill
Rumor has it that _elecom have finally decided to put ADSL on our exchange,
09 2927xxx
One of the closest rural exchanges south of Auckland City, how many years
has ADSL been available....? Could be something to do with Wired Country
building more new towers out here [Pollok Road - Clarks Beach], but none
quite reach my place, [very sad].

Well if your in Auckland and in a rural area or there are schools near you that don't currently have broadband then your area is probably under Probe and they are supposed to reach you by the end of the year.