[ale] OT: ADSL modem bottleneck

[Bjorn Dittmer-Roche]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Dow Hurst wrote:

> How expensive are the ADSL cards to put in a Linux box?
> I've seen them in Sysadmin magazine now and LinuxFormat from
> some hardware provider.  I've thought that building up the
> whole single purpose device under Linux would be nice for
> the control of the connection.  The little ADSL routers
> available never seem to be able to keep the connection from
> hanging which then requires recycling the power on the them.

I had this problem with my lynksys and found (burried in the online docs)
instructions to turn of DHCP. Turned it off and my problems went away.
This is sad, since DHCP is very convinient, but it works very well now.

	bjorn