D-Link DSL-302G

Bad – I work for an ISP and before ADSL2 came out this was the modem we were selling to customers. When it works it's pretty average otherwise it's a piece of junk. This modem is easy to troubleshoot but for some reason it's so prone to being faulty. It's more stable on an ethernet connection but using it on usb is asking for trouble. We had a lot of… Read more

warranty returns on this modem and in the end the company just stopped distributing it and sold the modems to staff at $2 each to get rid of the stock. Cheap, nice and compact Prone to faults

Terrible – I wish I had read the previous review some time ago as this modem was one big problem. Whenever it stopped working it was usually when it was in the middle of transferring large amounts of data that had to be restarted, and sometimes more than twice. I admire that the previous writer realised that this product had problems and scrapped the… Read more

sale of it to the public. Unfortunately I was always told that the problem was either in my computer, the phone line or anywhere else it could possibly be.

It wasn't until I later found out that my brother had signed with the same IP and received the same modem, only he trashed it after so many failures and bought a different one.

I did exactly the same after that, and found that all of the so-called problems that were my fault or other component faults mysteriously disappeared.

I wouldn't give this modem for free to my worse enemy - I don't hate anyone that much that I would put through the amount of frustration I had with it. ;-) It came free with an ISP 18 month ADSL contract. The amount of times it stopped working and had to be reset.