Just a quick note about ADSLv1 speeds. Here in NZ, ADSL2 and ADSL2+ are really just wishful thinking, so we're stuck with ADSLv1 at the moment. Its not too awful. Its essentially; up to 8Mbps down and up to 800kbps up depending on distance to the exchange and bunch of other factors. And actual throughput beyond your exchange is highly variable depending on how congested your exchange is.
For 4 or 5 years I've used an Alcatel Speedtouch USB modem attached to some form of linux box (more recently to an OPENWRT box). It has served me well, but has never managed download speeds higher than 2.3Mbps. Having had a few problems with my ADSL connection lately, I tried using a Dynalink RTA1025W ADSL2+ capable modem on the line, and the speed difference is staggering. This new ADSL router will max out at around 6Mbps ... which is rather fine and dandy.
The Dynalink is an interesting device. It seems to run some form of Montavista linux, and you can even enable SSH access via the web interface. Its a typical little busybox/uclibc type of setup. The only problem with the command line access is I can't work out how you save anything. This would be nice so you could add your own iptables rules and other stuff. One thing that I would like to work out is how to configure and save changes to the 4 port switch. It looks very similar to the one in the WRT54G devices whereby you can configure it to effectively look like multiple interfaces and hence have a true DMZ. The web interface kind of hints at the fact that you can do this but doesn't really tell you how.
