[ale] DSL providers

[William Bagwell]

On Monday 27 October 2008, James Sumners wrote:
> As for modems. You'll most likely be better off using the one from the
> ISP. They are going to require the one year contract anyway. However,
> the modem that I use is an Actiontec[3]. I bought it when I was still
> with Speedfactory because the one they supplied got hit by lightning,
> and getting a new from them would renew the contract. It works just
> fine with AtNex. I do have it configured for passthru, though, and use
> a Linksys WRT54g-L for authentication.

Fifty miles north of the city so my DSL provider is probably not an option 
for most. As to modems, I started with a TDS suplied Actiontec and hated 
the thing until I got my firewall reconfigured and the Actiontec in full 
bridge mode. Despite loosing a port to lightning (twice!) it worked great 
for three years and finally died recently.

Replaced it with a Zoom and like it with one exception. With the 
Actiontec, bridge mode was just that and no changes could be made other 
than a reset to factory settings. The Zoom still has accessibility and 
config changes that needed to be made after putting it in bridge mode.

While some may need this versatility I found it confusing. Oh, did not 
attempt to get the modem replaced through my ISP because they now charge 
$3 per month rent for them. Bought the Zoom at Microcenter.
-- 
William