Well, I’ve shipped my ZyXEL off to my grandfather so that his DSL setup for wires only won’t be too painful. I’ve ordered a Billion 7402r2 as a replacement for it, and I’ve also ordered a Digium TDM card for my Asterisk server. Both bits of kit have arrived today (and were only ordered yesterday!), and I should be installing them later this evening if things go well. I’m using a Mentor at the moment for DSL access, and while it’s certainly more stable than the ZyXEL, it has a pile less features - no multiple IP support, no SIP support, no SNMP. Here’s hoping the Billion works out - it actually has a few more bells and whistles than the ZyXEL, and they might actually be useful ones (like VPN support, and tuning of the ADSL signal power).
October 27th -
The Billion seems to work so far, and I’ve even got the VPN support working from $work. There seem to be some issues with the VoIP quality, so I’m going to have to fiddle with the bandwidth settings, perhaps set aside a 64kbit channel for it, along with the QoS settings.
Wow that is a nice ADSL router. Will have to remember Billion product line if I do consulting again for a living here.
Comment by Craig — October 28, 2006 @ 1:01
The one problem I’ve found, and I’m waiting for Billion’s support to respond to, is that even with a netblock of /29, there’s no way (that I can see) to map certain internal IP pools to a specific pool in the /29 - it presents all outbound traffic as being from the IP assigned to the router.
Comment by cricalix — October 29, 2006 @ 18:47