[wellylug] adsl--DSL-504T

David Antliff david.antliff at gmail.com
Sun Jul 23 09:47:27 NZST 2006


dugan wrote:
> I am planning to switch from dial up to adsl.  IHUG offers a deal on a DLink 
> DSL-504T modem router.  Has anybody had experience with it?  The house has 
> two computers, both running suse9.3

I can only comment on the D-Link DSL-504G, not the model T. It works, 
but it's not very impressive. I had to write a script that would monitor 
external IP addresses and if they disappeared for 5 minutes it would 
auto-telnet to the router and issue the 'reboot' command. This is 
because now and again the modem loses its link and fails to reconnect on 
its own, even after hours (it doesn't even know that its disconnected, 
by the looks). Since it would usually do this at the worst possible 
times, I *had* to do something about it otherwise "Always-On" internet 
was a joke.

My 10 cents.

-- 
David.




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