I use one and like it. It has simple configuration menus for the typical consumer and a hidden mode where it talks a lot like a Cisco running IOS where some of the detail stuff can be set. It actually moves data over my DSL line at up to a meg a second which is right in line with my copper lines' specification. My last link is 6 kilofeet, and it has no problem synching at 10 megabits, if the line is clean (a neighbor has 6 megabits on a 10 megabit service). In some ways, I think that I get a bit more wi-fi range out of other devices and my last hop takes about 7 milliseconds to traverse on traceroutes, which is way more than it should, but I suspect that Centurylink is pushing the packets through 3 or 4 pieces of ATM hardware to get them to me, so there may be nothing that the Zyxel can do about it. If you happen to be a Centurylink customer (Embarq/Sprint) then they will be experts at supporting these boxes, so that is an advantage. Zyxel has been around for a very long time. I used one of their early voice modems and tried to write an app for it. They had a tech work with me to determine why the app would occasionally drop into static, and the next version of the roms (which they sent me free) had a modem where the bit stream could resync after dropping a bit. So I like them as a company, I think they are responsive and don't abandon a product once the sale is made.
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I use one and like it. It has simple configuration menus for the typical consumer and a hidden mode where it talks a lot like a Cisco running IOS where some of the detail stuff can be set. It actually moves data over my DSL line at up to a meg a second which is right in line with my copper lines' specification. My last link is 6 kilofeet, and it has no problem synching at 10 megabits, if the line is clean (a neighbor has 6 megabits on a 10 megabit service).
In some ways, I think that I get a bit more wi-fi range out of other devices and my last hop takes about 7 milliseconds to traverse on traceroutes, which is way more than it should, but I suspect that Centurylink is pushing the packets through 3 or 4 pieces of ATM hardware to get them to me, so there may be nothing that the Zyxel can do about it. If you happen to be a Centurylink customer (Embarq/Sprint) then they will be experts at supporting these boxes, so that is an advantage.
Zyxel has been around for a very long time. I used one of their early voice modems and tried to write an app for it. They had a tech work with me to determine why the app would occasionally drop into static, and the next version of the roms (which they sent me free) had a modem where the bit stream could resync after dropping a bit. So I like them as a company, I think they are responsive and don't abandon a product once the sale is made.