Wall-mounted Openreach modem?

A couple of years ago now, I think, I upgraded to Zen Internet FTTC and it was a "managed install". An Openreach engineer visited and installed (and wall-mounted) this rather nice-looking modem:
http://game-point.net/misc/old-dsl-setup.jpg

Firstly, can anyone identify the model of this? Secondly, is there a way I can get hold of them? Now that managed installations are not done anymore, I hear these modems are sadly not being made which is a shame because a) they look nice and sleek and b) i like the wall-mounting. The Technicolor modem I received is no doubt technically fine but it's just designed to stand on a table or something and looks less professional.

Ebay but prices are shooting up and make sure it has a white PSU as the little black ones are reportedly unreliable. It is an HG612 3b you need but they only have a limited life and we have seen posts on this forum of them going faulty.

Hum. Well then do you know of any wall-mounted ones that look similarly sleek?

I have a TP-Link TD-WD9970 which can be wall mounted but currently sitting on a desk but the antenna can't be removed maybe someone else will have a more aesthetic suggestion. I have one of the modems in the picture as a backup in case the TP-Link goes pop or for diagnostics.

Cool. Have added to my sig.

Did you find one on ebay?

Yes. I've asked about the PSU.

In reply to a post by jez9999:

A couple of years ago now, I think, I upgraded to Zen Internet FTTC and it was a "managed install". An Openreach engineer visited and installed (and wall-mounted) this rather nice-looking modem:
http://game-point.net/misc/old-dsl-setup.jpg

That's an ECI Modem Type 1B I think

In reply to a post by jez9999:

Hum. Well then do you know of any wall-mounted ones that look similarly sleek?

I'd take a look at the Draytek Vigor 130

standalone VDSL/ADSL modem and can be neatly wall mounted, smaller than the BT version too

OK so it looks like both the ECI Modem Type 1B and the Huawei EchoLife HG612 were similar-looking modems installed by Openreach. Which was better / more reliable?

Depends on what is in your cabinet. Huwei cab - HG612, ECI cab ECI modem.

It looks like the kind of thing I want but is horribly expensive at £76. Might I not be better getting hold of an ECB type 1b from eBay, which seems to do the same thing (PPPoE bridge) but is Openreach branded?

Well how do I know what's in my cabinet?

A couple of ways if you know where your cabinet is you could take a pic and post it here and someone will tell you or google the different cabinets and see if you can work out which it is. Probably the easiest is the first option.

There have been problems with ECI cabinets because they don't support G.INP whereas the Huawei do. G.INP tends to give higher sync speeds.

In reply to a post by jez9999:

Well how do I know what's in my cabinet?

Pictures. There is a newer one not on there, which is an All-in-One, that looks a bit like a narrower Huawei 288, with no vents in the right-hand door.

There's a method here to find your cabinet http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/cabinet-lookup.htm

The big difference between the two is that the Huawei can be easily unlocked so you can access the line stats but the ECI cannot. Both are locked when supplied by Openreach

But the Huawei do still work with ECI cabinets, right?

I mean let's say my cabinet is ECI. Which modem of the following will work best, and which worst?
- ECI Modem Type 1B
- Huawei EchoLife HG612 3B
- Draytek Vigor 130

They all work with either cabinet

The best to buy off eBay used to be the HG612 3B as it lets you see the stats once you unlock it. Both it and the ECI are now rather long in the tooth, both in specification in terms of the connection speed they can deliver and sheer age. We are seeing a few on these forums that are playing up. I have two, that now mess up the line/DLM. They used to be great.

Mine need binning. I wouldn't trust some people not to eBay theirs in the same condition.

The Vigor 130 should be OK but not easy to get stats from. I sent mine back after three days and bought a Billion 8800NL R2 that suits me in modem/router mode. That can be used in bridge mode but I haven't tried it, even though my now unused ASUS router is sitting next to it. Wireless drawback with the Billion is that it is 2.4GHz only, but the best on that I have had.

Any with any and the results can vary.

I am connected to a Huawei cabinet, one of my ECI modems gives significantly better speeds than my two HG612s and they both slightly different in performance.

I choose to have the HG612 connected so I can access the line stats easily but could change if I wish.

In reply to a post by MHC:

I am connected to a Huawei cabinet, one of my ECI modems gives significantly better speeds than my two HG612s and they both slightly different in performance.

Of course you can't access the line stats from the ECI modems so you can't compare them with the line stats from the Huawei.

May not be able to access stats and I did not say I could, I specifically said speeds and with the three common testers,, here, BT and speedtest.net I can see a significant improvemen.

But you don't know if there's interleaving, fast path or G.INP. And crucially you don't know if there are errors.