... and it doesn't do ADSL, which was part of Alex's specification. On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Hannah Shalev wrote:

There's the classic Linksys WRT54GL, but it's a model that's over 10 years old and doesn't have some of the latest features and wireless standards. http://www.linksys.com/us/support-product?pid=01t80000003KOkNAAW

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Alex Fraser wrote:

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Hi all,

A long time ago, someone mentioned buying a router/ADSL modem that ran free software. IIRC they found that their connection was more reliable with it, and it cost something like $25. Does anyone remember this? Can anyone recommend a model?

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On 2 March 2017 at 10:43, thelionroars wrote:

I have yet to hear of an ADSL modem (bundled with a router or not) that is open, let alone free. I would love to find one though, so prove me ignorant!

Hi all, Freetz (https://freetz.org/) is a project for free software firmware for the Fritz!Box, quite a nice ADSL modem and the standard offering from Internode. From what I can gather there's still a binary blob for the core of the Fritz, but you can remove and install your own packages to reconfigure it. Cheers Paul Foxworthy

On 02/03/17 10:44, Ben Sturmfels wrote:

I don't think I've *ever* seen an ADSL modem running fully free software unfortunately. Heh, though here in Ballarat we have fibre to the home. ;)

Melbourne company Traverse Technologies sell open source ADSL hardware: https://www.traverse.com.au/products I have one of their ADSL 1 PCI adapters, which I used to use in a mini-PC running Linux as my home router. It made ISP support calls interesting, since it was running the Linux ATM stack and I could diagnose the ATM layer as well as the IP and PPPoA layers. :) Cheers, Andrew

Hi everyone, Thanks for all the great suggestions! I think Adam's MSY modem is what I was thinking of. But since other people mentioned it, I checked, and I've just found out that I'll be (supposedly) getting the NBN near the end of this year. I'm not sure if it's worth the trouble of getting a new modem in the mean time. Although $23 is pretty cheap. It's interesting that it's so hard to get an open modem - I didn't expect to hear that! Thanks again, Alex