Dov Zamir wrote:
Both of the DSL modems I've had, as well as both cable modems I've owned,
and every DSL modem I've installed for other people have all had 100meg
ports...either in a 4-5 port switch, or in the port that connected right
to the PC/router/firewall.
Interesting.
As I noted, a few seconds ago, I'm surprised that the manufacturers are
even bothering...I can't imagine that 10meg chipsets are that plentiful,
anymore.
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I work for a networking integrator, selling thousands of xDSL modems.
There are basically two levels of modems. Those produced by Cisco and
such have 10/100 Mbps interfaces and cost hundereds of dollars.
Those produced in the far east and in Europe, such as Alcatel and
Telyndos have 10Mbps interfaces and cost tens of dollars.
If you don't need all the fancy features (and most of us don't) that the
expensive modems can do, the cheaper ones actually outperform the more
expensive ones.
And even 10Mbps is silly unless you have a DS3 connection or better.
A T1 is only 1.544Mbps, a DS3 is 51Mbps. I've never heard of a DSL or
broadband connection coming anywhere near either.
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