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Well, first off, I still miss my Alcatel 1000. I got it when I got my first broadband connection in '98 or so.


Same here! Except that I don't miss it at all. Mine had the widespread firmware "downshift" bug, whereby over time it would gradually shift the speed down (slower) in response to the odd bit of line noise, and then never shift back up again.. eventually requiring a power-cycle to recover.

I had my (Linux) server wired with a solid-state relay, so that it would detect the very very slow line status, and then automatically power-cycle the modem to get out of it again.

But the new pppoe xDSL hardware is faster (downlink only, though), and doesn't need the same baby-sitting.

Cheers