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<\/a><\/p>\nDo you want wifi in your house? But are still using Dial Up Internet? The Lucent Orinoco RG-1000 modem \/ wifi gateway to the rescue. My model has a 28.8K modem built in (later models upgraded to a 56K). Don’t like easy web based configurations? No problem, it’s got you covered with a SNMP over the network configuration setup (which coincidentally is exactly the same as the original Apple Airport Base station!). Luckily somebody has made a Java tool that runs on Linux to configure it. If you need a spare PCMCIA Orinoco Silver 802.11 wifi card, you can open it up and harvest the one inside. It’s a historical oddity at this point, but I can’t bring myself to throw it out, on the off chance that I move somewhere where the only Internet I can get is dial up. <\/p>\n What? You liked the built in WIFI of the Lucent RG1000? Why not start manufacturing DSL modems with a wifi access point in them? You may notice that the size of my DSL modems was going in a downward direction until the 2701hg….well, when I switched to U-Verse all of my previous modems were no longer compatible, so I had to upgrade to the monster that is the 2wire 3600hgv. Seriously, this thing is big! The only thing bigger in my “networking area” is the UPS.<\/p>\n If anybody knows of a 3rd party U-Verse compatible DSL modem sized like the Motorola 2210, please let me know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the years I’ve used a lot of modems to connect to the Internet, starting with a 300 baud cartridge modem for a Commodore 64! In fact, I think hit all the major speed upgrades (300, 1200, 2400 9600, 14.4K, … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nAhh…the Westell B90 modem. It’s hard to forget your first DSL modem. The speed, The bandwidth!
\nIt included both an ethernet port, and a USB port (in case your computer didn’t have an Ethernet port built in….remember back when Ethernet wasn’t built into every motherboard?)<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nThe Motorola DSL Modem (Model 2210) is my all time favorite DSL modem due to it’s simple elegance. About the size of a deck of playing cards, it has only three jacks (Power, Telephone, Ethernet) and a reset button. The only way you could make a DSL modem simpler to is if it harvested it’s power supply off of the telephone hook line voltage. <\/p>\n
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\nThe 2wire 2701hg finally incorporated both DSL modem and wifi, but of course I still connected it to my own wireless gateway device because it didn’t support all of the configuration features I wanted. Why upgrade from the Model 2210 you might ask? I moved to a new house with a seriously substandard phone line (no, really, six months later I got AT&T to come out and on the 2nd visit the technician finally was able to measure the problem and moved the house to a different set of copper). The 2wire 2701hg had much better DSL performance than the Motorola 2210. (In that, it was able to get a signal at all, even if it did drop for an hour every day or two.) <\/p>\n<\/a>
\nThe first one worked great for 11 months, but then after a lightning storm it’s wired Ethernet ports stopped giving out DHCP addresses (DHCP over WIFI still worked!). The AT&T technician said that it has “DHCP in hardware” on the Ethernet ports, and replaced it under their 1 year warranty. <\/p>\n