On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:05:40 -0500, msg <msg@_cybertheque.org_> wrote:

>Indeed. It is mounted on a bulkhead 15 feet up so that adds to the
>challenge (extra points allotted?).

Yep. You get extra credit for doing that. By coincidence, I'm doing
a DSL and network wiring job and install this afternoon. The MPOE is
located 4 meters off the ground, directly over a small swamp. No easy
place to plant the ladder. I tried to convince AT&T to move it to
ground level, but they wanted too much money to fix their own mistake.

>Too bad the FCC site has been purging material older than 10 years;
>products which had a long life cycle (the 5861 evidently well into
>the new millennium) are gone since the original filing is now too
>old.

Argh. I didn't realize they were doing that. However, I doubt that
the 5861 is that old. I got DSL when it first arrived in this area in
mid 1999. At the time, the hot ticket was the Alcatel 1000 DSL modem,
a true piece of junk. The integrated DSL/router conglomerations came
several years later.

>No doubt it has a watchdog, however the logs confirm no spontaneous
>reboots (only after known power failures since it isn't on an UPS).
>Just seems well engineered.

Sound good enough for me. Will it do 6Mbits/sec thruput?

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