Quake3World

I might be switching my DSL service to Bell South soon, they offer their own modem for $75 or they have a list of acceptable modems.

Alcatel A1000
Alcatel Speed Touch Home
Alcatel Speed Touch USB
3Com HomeConnect PCI Card
Dell FastAccess Ready ITEX
Efficient Networks SpeedStream 3060
Efficient Networks SpeedStream 4060
2Wire HomePortal 1000/1000s/1100
2Wire HomePortal 1000SW
2Wire HomePortal 1700/1800 HW
Westell WireSpeed-2100/2200 B90
Westell WireSpeed-6100 B90 and C90
Efficient Networks SpeedStream 3061
Efficient Networks SpeedStream 5667
Eicon Diva 2430/2430SE
Eicon Diva 2440
ITeX ITeX Apollo 2
ITeX ITeX Apollo 3
Westell WireSpeed DMT

It would need to be able to connect to a router via Ethernet, some of those won't I believe.
Would it be better to just take the $75 from Bell South, or would picking up one of those be best, if so, which one?

Buy your own modem, but don't get any of the Speedstreams. They're pretty defective. My Speedstream 4200's power switch is held in place with carefully-positioned and precision-folded bits of paper

Funny thing is, I got it for free. Before ordering DSL from B2B2C, I had Bell Sympatico free for 3 months. When the 3 months were up, I kept the modem and when they demanded that I send it back, I just told them I don't have a modem and that their database must be mistaken. Idiots believed me $150 for a shitty modem? No thanks.

So you stole a modem from Bell?

I'm using a Thomson Speedtouch 516. So far so good.

Try to get an ADSL2 modem for futureproofing. I'm also pretty sure that virtually any ADSL2 modem will work.

Do you guys have a list dsl modems and which isps suport them? I have sbc ameritech (midwest) with a 2yr old speedstream, and I think I need to replace it (my internet gets cut off randomly)

I would prefer something decent, one that is better than average (I'd consider these free speedstreams they give away pretty average)