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.