From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 1 8:21:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3F5137B400 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 08:21:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.21.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 142F843E70 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 08:21:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nkinkade@dsl-only.net) Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (freebsd.localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (8.12.5/8.12.4) with SMTP id g71FMC8U002142; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 08:22:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nkinkade@dsl-only.net) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 08:22:07 -0700 From: Nathan Kinkade To: David Banning Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dsl modem suggestions Message-Id: <20020801082207.5f0a968a.nkinkade@dsl-only.net> In-Reply-To: <20020801030135.A54643@skytrackercanada.com> References: <20020801030135.A54643@skytrackercanada.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 03:01:35 -0400 David Banning wrote: > I have a gnet modem which is giving me trouble. > > It looks like I've wasted my money once. Any suggestions for a dsl > modem? Generally speaking, your DSL provider will give you a limited choice of CPE from which to choose. Your best bet is to stay within those bounds if you want to guarantee compatability between your CPE and the DSLAM. Your DSL provider, not your ISP, will have tested various CPE with their DSLAM(s). This isn't to say that their decisions on which CPE to "certify" aren't partial - only that they are known to work as expected. Did your provider tell you that you could just buy any CPE that you wanted? In theory, your CPE need only conform to the same line encoding standards as your provider (DMT or CAP), but in practice this may not be fool-proof. Nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message