<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 3:11 PM, David Lang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@lang.hm" target="_blank">david@lang.hm</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Fri, 3 Feb 2017, Rich Brown wrote:<br>
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On Feb 3, 2017, at 2:50 PM, David Lang <<a href="mailto:david@lang.hm" target="_blank">david@lang.hm</a>> wrote:<br>
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On Fri, 3 Feb 2017, Rich Brown wrote:<br>
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Friends in town say that Fairpoint recommends a Zyxel VMG4380-B10A modem for bonded pairs. They seem to have fairly good luck with it.<br>
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I've got a VMG4325-B10A and it's horrific, still running a 2.6 kernel. I routinely have several seconds of buffering on my upload. according to the Zyxel site, the 4380 has a coax connection.<br>
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Yes, that's why it makes sense to stick LEDE in series with the Zyxel, to let LEDE handle the queueing.<br>
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the trouble is that to do this, you have to set the outbound speed well below the actual speed, and when you only have 2Mb to start with...<span class=""><br>
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I've actually never seen a Zyxel, so can't speak to the connectors. Hmmm... The Zyxel specs at <a href="https://www.zyxel.com/me/en/promotions/promotion_20130416_076615_me_en.shtml" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.zyxel.com/me/en/pr<wbr>omotions/promotion_20130416_07<wbr>6615_me_en.shtml</a> show the 4380 as having both a GbE connector (as if... :-) and a coax HPNA connector.<br>
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Yes, this series has a Gig-E as well as the DSL/Coax WAN connector(s)<br>
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It's really a horrible, overbuffered, limited firmware from the factory (the "firewall" has three settings for example)<br>
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I'm looking for a replacement for it, and when you spoke of people recommending it, I have to disagree with them.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br></font></span></blockquote><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The Evenroute guys ship a DSL modem with their router in their current product. It's based on a recent Openwrt. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Installation was pretty sane, though there can be a hiccup in the installation if your ISP runs PPOE, as you need the account credentials for the line (a username/password pair). I found them on a label on the old DSL modem being replaced in one of the two installation experiences. Evenroute is improving the installation directions as we speak.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Their installation directions were already better than for most devices; the biggest problem we ran into was for PPOE. So I can recommend going with their product; the first time I've been able to make any recommendation for anyone on DSL short of just neutering the existing router with a second one able to run SQM.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">They are looking into trying to support an integrated modem/router when they can get a suitable one (probably based on a Lantiq chip, for which there are open source drivers).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">If anyone has experience with one of these Lantiq based integrated routers, I'm sure we'd all like to hear about it...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The other headache in DSL is that some ISP's don't actually give you the bandwidth you pay for and the bandwidth varies widely during the day; so dynamic adjustment of the bandwidth may be necessary on some ISP's. As far as I'm concerned, that's the killer app for Evenroute's product, with a close second that they monitor your DSL modem for SNR and signal strength and errors for you, making arguing with your ISP easier.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> - Jim</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div></div></div>