[Cialug] actiontec modem with high load

Dave Weis djweis at internetsolver.com
Sun Dec 18 17:34:58 CST 2005


On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> Yes, http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Hardware/Actiontec/GT701-WG
> links to most of the available information.  I had to build my own
> from source as AR7 support is still experimental.  I'm using r2601
> from trunk.  Currently the wireless and status LEDs are nonfunctional.
>
> I've only tested this with 256k/256k service.  The forum post from
> August mentioned that (at least back then) the firmware for the ADSL
> modem wasn't able to keep the connection trained at 7M/896k.  I've got
> no idea if the in-tree firmware has since been updated.

Interesting, I might give this a try. Are you running your Qwest 
connection at pppoa or pppoe? They don't "support" pppoe but it still 
works. We haven't configured it on our router and only use pppoa.

dave

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