[geeks] Recommendations for DSL router?

[Dan Sikorski]

Michael-John Turner wrote:

>Urgh, that's what I meant :)  s/router/"modem"/ (or whatever the correct
>name is for a DSL PPPoE device).
>
>The ones that our local telco provides are pretty expensive and 
>feature-less, hence my search.
>  
>
They're pretty basic.  All of the ones that i've worked with just work 
when they're plugged in.  The one that SBC gave me (SpeedStream) looked 
like a cheap piece of plastic crap, and the power cable didn't fit 
snugly in it, but it worked fine for the year that i used it.  I 
replaced it just this week because i got one that looks a little nicer 
that was going to be thrown away (Westell).  It came from a Verizon DSL 
installation.  No reason for replacing the one i had other than looks.  
The one that Sprint (Zyxel, i think) gave me, and my parents still use 
is much nicer looking, has more status LED's, and has a serial console 
port.  It's very nice, but really, it does the exact same job just as 
well as the other two.  I think Cisco makes one, it probably doesn't 
suck too bad.

    -Dan Sikorski