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| Thread ID: 21364 | 2002-06-24 03:24:00 | ADSL Modems | najopito (596) | Press F1 |
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| 56819 | 2002-06-24 23:47:00 | Anybody brought a Dick Smith one? | najopito (596) | ||
| 56820 | 2002-06-26 04:04:00 | Hi Najopito,the main problem with ADSL modems is not the modem itself,in most cases,but how far you are away from the telephone exchange.Any more than about 2-3kms from the exchange and the internals have a problem with drop off's.This can also include some of the cheaper externals as well.If you are more than 4kms from the exchange,you will probably have to get one of the more expensive externals,such as the Alcatel Speed touch,or the Nokia M1122,both excellent.As part of my job as a faultman for Telecom,I have to fix ADSL faults,and often I have to tell people that the modem they have just bought is no good for the line they are on,mainly because of the distance issue. If you would like any more help on this just let me know. Peter Coleman |
Peter Coleman (597) | ||
| 56821 | 2002-06-26 06:00:00 | Interesting comments! I don't think your friend knew what he was talking about quite frankly. I understood that Nokia are/were the main supplier of DSL equipment to Telecom and certainly Telecom used Nokia modems exclusively when they launched Jetstream. Compatibility between Telecom's equipment and user modems would have been a priority in that arrangement. Certainly they would be 100% compatible to the full distance limit from the exchange and I've heard of people getting good results (admittedly not at full speed) well outside that distance. In all the time I've been hanging around Press F1 I have never heard of anybody having problems with Nokia modems, and the Ni500 overheating issue was not a critical problem, it just preferred fresh air around it. The only drivers for the Ni500 are inside the modem. It doesn't load anything onto your computer except some initialisation files. Once up and running those can be deleted if you really think it necessary. I have two other computers using my cmnnection via a hub without any software installation at all. I had a 3Com Dual-Link ethernet/USB ADSL modem first and that suffered from every problem in the book from buggy software to unintelligible installation instructions that took forever to find a work-around for. The Nokia was installed and running in 5 minutes and hasn't missed a beat since. Having said all that, I'd stick to external modems and avoid USB types like the plague. Internals and USB types are likely to requireprocessor time to substitute for hardware functions performed by software instead. Chers Billy 8-{) |
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