[Cialug] Get it in writing

[Brad Boeckmann]

>From my recent experience, I kept chatting online with a support rep until
I got what I was originally promised. Took about four sessions but they
eventually relented.


On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 5:51 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:

> Make sure that you're buying the right modem. In some areas, for some
> speeds CenturyLink is using VDSL2 and not ADSL2. They are not the same
> thing and ADSL2 modems don't usually support VDSL2 (although it seems
> that VDSL2 modems generally support ADSL2+). Other than very expensive
> modules for Cisco routers, I've never seen anything other than the the
> CenturyLink-branded modems that support VDSL2.  Well, except now there
> seems to be the Netgear DM200-100NAS but I've never tried it before so
> I can't say much about it.
>
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 5:25 PM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > The P660R is really basic, probably OK for bridging but as a router it's
> > too slow. The P660HN-51 is a more full-featured modem, and works pretty
> > well.
> >
> > -dc
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Zachary Kotlarek <zach at kotlarek.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On 15 Aug 2016, at 15:00, Scott Yates wrote:
> >>
> >> > Is there a good STABLE modem for CL that just does pass-through like a
> >> > surfboard does?
> >>
> >>
> >> I use the “ZyXEL ADSL 2+ Ethernet Router (P660R-F1)”. It is happy to do
> >> nothing but throw frames between interfaces, and has moderately useful
> link
> >> status information available via text interface.
> >>
> >>         Zach
> >>
> >>
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