Re: DSL modem recommendations

From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 14:14:33 UTC
On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 5:04 PM Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> wrote:

> On 4/20/23 22:53, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 10:59 PM Gary Aitken
> > <freebsd@dreamchaser.org <mailto:freebsd@dreamchaser.org>> wrote:
> >
> > My Zyxel 642R appears to be dying; can't deal with a 10Mbps line.
> > Recommendation from my ISP is a Zyxel VMG 4005-B50B.
> >
> > I'm wondering if others have different recommendations. Also
> > wondering what the difference between a B50B and a B50A are; it's
> > not obvious to me looking at specs, other than the B50A supports
> > G.993.1 VDSL which shouldn't be important I don't think.
>
> > I'd go with something that is MODERN!
> >
> >
> https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08N5C139T?tag=theapprovedmodems-20&linkCode=assoc-rails-rate-card-link-code-tw3&th=1&psc=1
>
> Doesn't do much good when you live in a rural location where top speed
> is 10 Mbps and they have to put a repeater on the line to get that.
>
> Gary
>

At least you get a taste of "future" speeds within the LAN :-)


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