Draytek Vigor 120 ADSL 1/2/2+ modem limited time sale!
This little modem does it all… read full specifications in product link.
Regular Price: $52.00 plus $9.95 shipping/handling
Sale Price: $45.00 with free shipping
Savings: $16.95
Limit one per household and offer expires Monday 9am AEST or while stock is available. This will sell out so get one today! Paypal accepted at check out.
We sell quite a number of these - lots of people out there who do not like one dedicated piece of hardware to do everything.
Or you buy this if you have multiple ADSL connections connected to something like a dual wan router. Fair number of reasons I guess. Not everyone wants wi-fi and all the extra options.
Great piece of hardware and at an awesome price.
You can turn off the WiFi section if it's not needed and you don't have to use all the 4 wired ports.
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Why waste extra dollars paying for a device with extra features just to disable them?
Because you might expect to use them soon?
Warcom, is there a straightforward way to connect this to a Draytek 2600VG such that the 120 handles the ADSL2+, while the 2600 can handle wifi/filtering/voip etc?
Well technically you can just connect the 120 to the phoneline/internet and connect the ethernet cable to the 2600VG. Thereby using the 120 as a modem and the 2600VG as a router - should work fine, as long as the 2600VG isn't connected to the phoneline it's modem won't do anything.
If you are using the 120 to handle the ADSL authentication and the 2600 to do the routing, then you are running what is called half-bridging mode, which isn't really bridging but a trick involving short DHCP leases.
What this means is that if you have a dynamic IP address, you could have short periods of loss of connectivity when your IP address changes and the 2600 catches up. With a static IP there shouldn't be a problem.
How do I know? I have exactly this configuration, with a Netgear ADSL2+ modem and a Buffalo WiFi router. Reason I tolerate it is because I had the WiFi router already and the modem was thrown in by the ISP. But next time I will buy a combo modem/router.
Alternatively, if the router has a PPPoE or PPPoA client, you can run the modem in bridging mode, but that doesn't appear to be the case with the 2600 from a quick look at the specs.
Another alternative is to run the 120 and the 2600 in NAT mode, but that means double NAT, which is a PITA if you want to do port forwarding because you have to edit in two places.
@Warcom: Gosh, that simple — cool. It could be suitable as more than just a rudimentary backup device then. (If only I'd realised that before I bought a 2710vg and a 2820vnc.)
Note to mods: the "reply" command is missing from Warcom's comment - why is that?
I wonder who uses single port ADSL modems any more. For a bit more money you can get a 4 port WiFi modem/router.