On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Munir Nassar wrote:
> Wayne Johnson writes:
> > I recently upgraded my DSL to the new 1.5Mb service from Qwest. It required
> > me to upgrade the modem to the Actiontec. Not sure I like it.
>
> Qwest is trying is telling all their customers who have cisco routers that
> they need to upgrade, even if they have Cisco678s that will still work.
Yep. If you had a 675, that's useless (and has been for years), but
they're telling people 678s "won't work" with the new installs, and that's
just false.
Through odd circumstances they sold us a GT701 and comp'ed us for it. I
used it for a while, but experienced the lockups mentioned by the OP (or
similar lockups, maybe). Unfortunately, with the 678 the synch dropped
every time the phone (on a different line than the DSL circuit, oddly)
rang. I narrowed it down to some extraneous wiring installed by the
people who sold us our phone system, and once I removed a pair of bridge
clips, the problem went away. As did the GT701 (and its horrible UI).
The 678 may be long since EOL'd, but it still does what I want it to do.
I've had nothing but problems with ActionTec DSL modems (as Real-Time
might remember).
Jima