Computer techies:

Got a Q here...

For the first time in YEARS, and by YEARS I mean 9 years, I've got business grade DSL again (after satellite and 3g/4g nightmares). Right now I'm leasing a DSL modem from them, but want to get my own equipment (which they are just fine with). I've been searching for a good ADSL 2+/VDSL modem that DOES NOT have wifi built in and doesn't cost $1500. Any suggestions?

 

Motorola makes a couple, with, and without wi-fi, for under a 100 bucks. Staples generally has them on the shelf. Skip the protection plan though. Waste of money.

 

OK guys. Stewie and Wildman are splitting the stogies. I'm holding back a couple for myself (one smells like a chocolate bar), but the two of them are in for a treat!

 

I would have liked to have gotten in on the cigars too but, I don't enjoy them so much as inhale them. I smoke like a broke stove most of the time.

 

What I do is to hit fleabay every now and then and buy three or four new of any decent name brand's recently discontinued better models. Getting them all of the same model, I just configure the first one and then dump that configuration out to be restored on the others. It might take watching for a while, but I usually get them for $15 to $25 each. As soon as I see one giving up trouble, I just pluck another one out of the closet, ready to go. The investment in each is so low that I wouldn't bother with warranty service even if I could get it, which I can't.

I've never actually seen what I'd call a high quality, reliable ADSL modem. I haven't seen any real difference in lifespan between the new but recently discontinued models and the much more expensive new current models. I usually get 12 to 14 months out of them before I start seeing excessive packet loss or random sync failures, and I'm surprised if one goes 18 months. So I just run the cheap recently discontinued models and save money and warranty hassles, and hit fleabay every couple or three years to restock.

 

Watch this all the way to the end. Absolutely amazing.

 

Didn't run on it's own. Fail.

 

who the hell would spend $1500 on a modem? let alone $500 on one?!

The cable modem I bought for the GF's place was $70

Motorola surfboard DOCSIS 3.0 capable of 300Mbps download and 100Mbps upload.

her interweb plan is for 25Mbps download and 5Mbps upload, so I don't think she's going to outgrow that modem for a while... we got it about a year ago. it has already paid for itself as of a few months ago. (don't have to pay the $7/month equipment rental fee when you have your own modem)

 

Datacenter would - but I'm not running a local datacenter, yet.

And we don't have DOCSIS so screw that...

 

Looking at this modem...

http://www.staples.com/NETGEAR-Broad...3#desc_content

What I would do for this..