Definitely the TP-Link, they have great hardware and that device
works great as an xDSL modem.
Furthermore, D-Link devices tend to run on outdated kernels.
Put the TP-Link in bridge mode to minimize attack surface, use it
just as a dumb modem, and put
In addition to everything Yuval said, especially about putting the modem
into "bridge" mode -
OpenWRT is a great choice. Alternately, I've been using a Ubiquiti
EdgeRouter-X to do PPPoE. The ER-X is a ~200 NIS Gigabit router with
integrated switch chip. I love these little Ubiquiti devices!
I have a tp-link archer 600 router, I got from my ISP, and it does not reliably
pass packets to and from the wifi and wired networks.
Eventually, I will get around to replacing it.
Geoff.
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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Jerusalem, Israel
On May 21, 2020, 7:41 PM +0300,
Hi,
Think I'm down to: TP-Link TD-W9970 vs D-Link DSL-224. Any
recommendations/thoughts/war-story's are highly appreciated.
Sadly they both do not support dd-wrt or open-wrt, it looks like
no ADSL modem does these days, so that
