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Linksys WAG300N

My ADSL modem died on me on recently. For two months my BT supplied ADSL connection had become worse and worse. The modem was loosing the signal several times a day. The statistics page of the X-Modem M3 from ADSL Nation seemed to imply that it was the ADSL connection. I even had BT check the line and they suggested lowering the line speed. And then I lost the connection again and the modem couldn’t connect again. I finally got suspicious and tried the USB ADSL modem I was originally supplied with, and guess what, no problems with the ADSL line at all.

So this time I bought a combined router, switch, access point and ADSL modem. I don’t really like that combination, I prefer the ADSL modem to be separate, but the X-Modem M3 is the only true Ethernet ADSL modem available for the UK market (as far as I know). I decided to go for a device with 802.11n (draft).
I once had a Netgear ISDN router; firmware updates ended very quickly and support was not good. I bought a Linksys WRT54G some years ago and it just keeps working and working, and even though Linksys seems to have end-of-lifed it as far as firmware updates go, the firmware updates did continue for quite some time. So I chose the Linksys WAG300N.

I’m afraid it will be returned though. It has performed well, but:
It has an On/Off button. The other day there was a short power cut and the WAG300N did not switch back on by itself, I had to press the on/off button when power had come back on. I run several services on a home server (which comes back on automatically after a power cut), so the ADSL modem has to come back on its own after a power cut as well.
There are no ADSL statistics. You could argue that the ADSL statistics are of little use as I couldn’t use them to figure out what was wrong with the deceased ADSL modem, but at least I could see that something was wrong. So I want some statistics.

On the positive side: It was extremely easy to get working with the ADSL connection, and one big plus point with me is that it supports SNMP out of the box.

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