After my last modem was used so much that the mains plug got hot and melted, I decided to upgrade. I bought this modem for two reasons, I wanted good connections to the net and, beacuse a friend reccomended it to me.

I am very pleased with it as it comes with an outstanding piece od software called "modem manager" which lets you manipulate the modem in a range of ways and aslo, to get aproper picture of how fast you are connected to the internet.

All in all, I will keep enjoying this modem and it's capabilities until ADSL becomes affordable and more widespread.