[YBA] High-end DSL modem

[Michael Tewner]

Shavua Tov!

This may not be in the spirit of Linux-IL, but I was able to solve a lot of
DSL annoyances by moving our small office to a Cisco 800-series ADSL+WiFi
(provided as part of their BizNet service). The router performs rock-solid
with uptime measure in years (assuming you never update it...) and routing
works exactly as you'd expect, no-nonsense. If you don't have someone
on-site with Cisco experience, Bezeq will manage it for you as part of the
BizNet service (which also has faster upload-speed options than otherwise
available).
I'm not saying that this is an equivalent solution to DD-WRT (especially as
concerning "Free as in Beer/Speech"), but if you have a client experiencing
networking issues, as one professional to another, this may be a possible
solution.

Please don't throw any open-source tomatoes.
-Mike


On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 1:09 AM, E.S. Rosenberg <esr+linux-il at g.jct.ac.il>wrote:

> What do you mean by in-progress support? Recent routers that are
> supported generally get the latest builds too...
>
> I used to have a 841ND running OpenWRT until I bricked it with a
> botched upgrade and though it has recovery options as documented in
> the wiki I never had the time so I bought a 1043ND, with which I was
> pretty happy with stock so so far I have only made sure it's stock is
> up to date and not yet upgraded to openwrt.
>
> The 740N also supports OpenWRT and seemingly has some pretty cool
> features (for it's really low price) if your are willing to solder,
> but due to low memory you may not be able to have a Web interface with
> OpenWRT (at least not on initial flash, you can install it
> afterwards).
>
> Those are the models I have touched (and are widely available here in
> Israel), have a look here:
> http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/start
>
> Regards,
> Eliyahu - אליהו
>
>
> 2013/12/8 Jonathan Ben Avraham <yba at tkos.co.il>:
> > Hi Eliyahu,
> > Do you have a model number? The only one I could find was the TD-W8970
> with
> > in-progress OpenWRT support.
> > Thanks,
> >
> >  - yba
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 8 Dec 2013, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:
> >
> >> Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 00:02:14 +0200
> >> From: E.S. Rosenberg <esr+linux-il at g.jct.ac.il>
> >> To: Jonathan Ben Avraham <yba at tkos.co.il>
> >> Cc: ILUG <linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il>
> >> Subject: Re: [YBA] High-end DSL modem
> >>
> >>
> >> Use a simple 1-port ethernet modem with a decent router attached to
> >> it, for instance a TP-Link which is sold in most computer stores here
> >> and most models have support ranging from decent to excellent of
> >> openwrt.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Eliyahu - אליהו
> >>
> >> 2013/12/7 Jonathan Ben Avraham <yba at tkos.co.il>:
> >>>
> >>> Dear colleagues,
> >>> I am looking for a good quality DSL modem or WAP with DSL modem that
> >>> supports OpenWRT in Israel. Any suggestions? Price is not an issue.
> >>>
> >>> The problem that I am trying to solve is PPTP client connections from
> >>> behind
> >>> the modem being blocked because the cheaper DSL modem that I am using
> >>> (D-Link DSL-2500U Russian version) does not seem to be able to forward
> >>> GRE
> >>> (only TCP, USD or both) in "virtual server" mode and cannot NAT GRE in
> >>> "DMZ"
> >>> mode.
> >>> Shavua tov and TIA,
> >>>
> >>>  - yba
> >>>
> >>>
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