If it matters, I just checked with my in-house Cisco guy from work, and he says the 887s are end of life products. Any chance you could leverage that to get a newer one from your service provider?
Dan Sent from my iPad On Dec 10, 2012, at 9:42 PM, Craig <[email protected]> wrote: > It's very ironic, isn't it? The telephone company (CenturyLink, in our > case) has run fiberoptic lines to a box about a quarter of a mile from > our house. The technician who came out last Thursday said he thought > about connecting us to those, but because they are intended to provide > service up to 40 Mbps, they require a different modem. > > Our Cisco 877 is an ADSL modem and the fiberoptic lines require a VDSL > modem. Being currently unemployed, I'm not about to go out and purchase > a Cisco 887 ADSL/VDSL modem or any other one that would work. So, we get > stuck with DSLAM dropouts and other frustrations. Right now, it's giving > us up to 1.4 Mbps. Before the technician's visit, it would only do 572 > kbps -- not enough to watch a YouTube video. > > > Craig > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
