[lug] Modem recommendations

[D. Stimits]

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>> A stray note, perhaps not useful, maybe it is...many motherboards have 
>> "wake on lan" (WOL) feature, that is integrated with the built-in LAN. 
>> I believe there might be some modems with pins available to jumper to 
>> WOL pins, you might check on that...in which case both your modem and 
>> your motherboard will matter.
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> That is very handy -- but since this machine is up all the time handling 
> web requests, I don't think this is a concern.. though, that is very 
> handy for having a home system accessible in this manner.

I was just thinking that if you need to change runlevels, the WOL is a 
nice way to do it. If the machine is down it would reboot it. If the 
machine is up, it would just operate normally. My general rule is that 
if I do something administrative, it'll be a risk to not be able to 
reboot. Linux is far less likely to need reboot than another famous o/s 
we know...but still if you do things like kernel upgrades then reboot is 
a nice remote feature, and having a modem with that feature on a 
motherboard with that feature...it might as well be useful (I suspect 
almost every motherboard with a built in NIC has the feature now, and 
many non-winmodems do as well). Though I don't think many modems 
advertise those features until you open the manual. It's more of an 
emergency feature than it is a feature you expect to use routinely.

D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net