Getting my Mom started with an entry level (1.5M) DSL service from Quest for light web surfing and e-mail. She lives in a single level 3-br ranch home located in a residential neighborhood and would be using her HP laptop with built in Intel b/g/n card.
I expect a basic wireless b/g router with an integrated ADSL modem would simplify things greatly: fewer cables, simplified power-up sequence, less clutter, etc.
I presume the one box approach limits the flexibility of later switching to a cable provider as I haven't seen one with an ethernet WAN port. Are there other down sides to the all-in-one approach? (finger pointing with ISP?)
Deciding features are:
- reliable & acceptable to carrier
- low cost
- remote administration (I visit, but she is a airline flight away)
I am looking at:
Netgear DG834G ($79)
+ covers the basics, great price
Netgear DVG834 (ISP only?)
+ Includes filtered phone port
Netgear DVG631G (ISP only?)
+ Pick up USB port and filtered phone port
- Lose 3 LAN ports
Netgear DGN2000 ($90)
+ Better coverage of N
? Draft N compatibility
D-Link DSL-2640B ($77)
? saw comment that remote admin is limited - no web interface
Any thoughts on these all-in-ones or the category in general?
thanks,
Scott
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." - Justice Louis D. Brandeis
I expect a basic wireless b/g router with an integrated ADSL modem would simplify things greatly: fewer cables, simplified power-up sequence, less clutter, etc.
I presume the one box approach limits the flexibility of later switching to a cable provider as I haven't seen one with an ethernet WAN port. Are there other down sides to the all-in-one approach? (finger pointing with ISP?)
Deciding features are:
- reliable & acceptable to carrier
- low cost
- remote administration (I visit, but she is a airline flight away)
I am looking at:
Netgear DG834G ($79)
+ covers the basics, great price
Netgear DVG834 (ISP only?)
+ Includes filtered phone port
Netgear DVG631G (ISP only?)
+ Pick up USB port and filtered phone port
- Lose 3 LAN ports
Netgear DGN2000 ($90)
+ Better coverage of N
? Draft N compatibility
D-Link DSL-2640B ($77)
? saw comment that remote admin is limited - no web interface
Any thoughts on these all-in-ones or the category in general?
thanks,
Scott
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." - Justice Louis D. Brandeis