I got tired of my zyxel P660R-D1 due to it rebooting once in while. I went looking for an replacement ADSL to ethernet box. The Zyxel is a full blown router, but why use that when I already have an Linksys E3000? Looking around I found the P-Link TD-8616 ADSL modem, which sells for around $25.
To set it up was very very very easy:
- Plug it in.
- Configure my laptop with at static ip of 192.168.1.2.
- Connecting the laptop and the TD-8616 back to back.
- Browsing to 192.168.1.1
- Altering the VCI/VPI to 0/101 to match TDC
- Browsing the web interface of my E3000
- Using the mac address clone feature, giving the E3000 the mac of the old zyxel router
- Renew the lease of the E3000.
- All done.
I’ll reserve my final judgement until I have seen the stability, but the setup was easy enough and until know it performs quite nicely with 40% of the power that the zyxel needed.