On Tue, 2026-04-21 at 13:57 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Herbert, > > On Tue, 21 Apr 2026 at 13:51, Herbert Xu <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 10:26:18AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > I suspect they don't have a huge amount of interest in the Solos any > > > more, or the Geode-based SBC they sold with two of them on-board. But > > > OpenWrt does still support them, and I even have one here (although no > > > ADSL line to test it with). They were briefly popular as fully Linux- > > > supported ADSL routers. > > > > ADSL is history, it only ever made sense in rich countries where > > physical copper cables were pre-installed in homes. While rich > > countries have moved to fibre, the rest of the world won't use > > ADSL either because there is no copper cable to begin with. So > > it's actually cheaper to just lay a fibre cable for a new install. > > I am afraid the move to fibre hasn't been completed yet. > ADSL (VDSL2?) is still being used.
VSDL is different, and isn't ATM-based. But even ADSL is still in use; in the UK some rural areas haven't got fibre yet.
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