[TriLUG] "IP Passthrough" and AT&T 1-Wire ( sorry, 2-Wire )

Rob Lockhart rlockhar at gmail.com
Sun Mar 15 16:11:43 EDT 2009


On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 16:03, Brian McCullough <bdmc at bdmcc-us.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 03:39:20PM -0400, Rob Lockhart wrote:
> >
> > Do you mean "2-Wire"??  Never heard of 1-wire, and being that DSL needs
> at
> > least two wires,  you won't work very well with just one. :-)
>
> You're right.  It is a 2-Wire 2701 HG-B.
>
>
Hmm, my first place of choice would be dslreports.com forums.  Lots of gurus
there.

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/2wire



> > modems were using the newest DSL chips which were supposed to have a
> lower
> > noise floor and such, which means less errors and longer reach for a
> fixed
> > bit rate, or higher bit rate for the same reach, as compared to the older
> > Thompson modems.
>
> The older box, still in use, is a Westell 327W.
>

You're right.  The very old ones were Alcatel 1000 (had a fan!), then the
slimline units, then Thompson, and then Westell.  Perhaps 2Wire supersedes
Westell.

Regards,
  -Rob



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