The ADSL marketplace seems to be awash with dodgy hardware.
In our quest for for workable kit, we’ve rolled out a D-Link, a Netgear, and a Zoom modem at Jeremy’s place. The D-Link stopped connecting after a firmware upgrade (which was required to enable proper routing). The Netgear would slow down progressively during the day, and required a reboot each morning, often taking many minutes to connect.
Now it seems the Zoom modem we got is a hardware revision ahead of the same kit we rolled out at David’s, and does not support port redirection.
Jeremy is still fighting with D-Link over a refund, and we lost £10 on the refund for the Netgear kit due to some extremely dubious terms and conditions of sale. I imagine we’ll have similar problems with the Zoom modem. I recommend everyone becomes well-acquainted with the sale of goods act before taking on the high street vendors (who I have a lot of sympathy for – it seems like ADSL modems are something of a lottery on which they can only lose).
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I bought a Sangoma S518 PCI ADSL Card. I just plug it into my Linux Router, and it looks like another ppp interface. It rocks. No more screwing with things like dlink, and I can do proper traffic shapping.
I highly recommend Draytek Vigor hardware.
http://www.seg.co.uk
Try the 2600G
My Vigor 2600 served we well for several years…