<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 3, 2017, at 2:00 PM, Jim Gettys <<a href="mailto:jg@freedesktop.org" class="">jg@freedesktop.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 1:55 PM, Rich Brown <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:richb.hanover@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">richb.hanover@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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 class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">​Unfortunately, the OpenWrt wiki says it has a Broadcom chip in it: no open source driver the last I knew for them... While I believe Broadcom sold off its wifi business and the recipient vendor recently opened its driver (and there was a reverse engineered driver already available), I don't believe the DSL chips had a similar change.</div></div><div class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"><br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">​ - Jim</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I'm a strong proponent of staying with vendor firmware on DSL equipment. DSL is such a dicey technology, running on crummy copper lines, with lots of odd protocol options, variations, etc (and ATM (?!)). <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It gets hard to defend an outage/trouble report when they ask, "What kind of modem do you have" and you start to tell them that you hot-rodded the modem to use some lunatic firmware with anti-buffer-what? :-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So I stick to using their modem. That goes double for a Zyxel that's bonding two pairs: just plug the LEDE router's WAN Ethernet into it, and the bits go in and out. Don't peer too closely at the man behind the curtain/sausage being made. If they're not delivering anything close to their promised/estimated speed, then you have cause to complain.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In their defense, I will say that the Fairpoint techs on the support lines are halfway (or quite) knowledgeable, and are supportive of either of these cases:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- I run my own router.</div><div class="">- I put the DSL modem in bridge mode, and let the router supply PPPoE credentials</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But letting Fairpoint-supplied equipment handle the physical link seems good to me.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My two cents...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Rich<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>