On Wednesday 13 July 2005 10:04 am, Jima wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Munir Nassar wrote: > > Wayne Johnson writes: > > > I recently upgraded my DSL to the new 1.5Mb service from Qwest. It > > > required me to upgrade the modem to the Actiontec. Not sure I like it. > > > > Qwest is trying is telling all their customers who have cisco routers > > that they need to upgrade, even if they have Cisco678s that will still > > work. > > Yep. If you had a 675, that's useless (and has been for years), but > they're telling people 678s "won't work" with the new installs, and that's > just false. > Through odd circumstances they sold us a GT701 and comp'ed us for it. I > used it for a while, but experienced the lockups mentioned by the OP (or > similar lockups, maybe). Unfortunately, with the 678 the synch dropped > every time the phone (on a different line than the DSL circuit, oddly) > rang. I narrowed it down to some extraneous wiring installed by the > people who sold us our phone system, and once I removed a pair of bridge > clips, the problem went away. As did the GT701 (and its horrible UI). > The 678 may be long since EOL'd, but it still does what I want it to do. > I've had nothing but problems with ActionTec DSL modems (as Real-Time > might remember). > > Jima > The Cisco 675 is not completely worthless. If for example you still have an older CAP line from Qwest and your current router dies. You can use a Cisco 675 or a 678 as long as the 678 has a CAP cbos loaded. Note 2.4.8 is the latest (and likely last) version cbos for the cisco 67x dsl routers. Also the actiontecs may need to have their firmware updated too.