- Netgear v BT v Belkin
- Posted by Bobby on December 20th, 2004
My local PC World sells a Belkin modem/router, a BT modem/router (Voyager
2100) and a Netgear modem/router. Is any one of these better than the other?
The Netgear is slightly cheaper (but not much) and it claims to support
"ADSL 2" whatever that is.
Cheers.
Bobby
- Posted by dylan on December 20th, 2004
I have a DG834G dsl modem / router, works with no problems. Tried a belkin
wireless PCI card which wouldn't work with my Netgear MP101 so took it back.
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- Posted by Richard Sobey on December 21st, 2004
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 20:39:24 -0000, "Bobby" <bobby@europe.com> wrote:
No doubt someone else can provide much better information than I, but
ADSL2, as I understand it, is ADSL with the same up/down speeds and
higher overall speed. Basically ADSL on speed.
- Posted by Bobby on December 21st, 2004
Is anyone (e.g. BT) going to supply ADSL2? Is it worth buying a modem that
supports it? Will existing modem be flash-upgradeable?
Cheers.
Bobby
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- Posted by dylan on December 21st, 2004
Looks like they double the bandwidth to achieve greater speeds.
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/tech/20...echupdate.html
PS
my understanding is if they used same up/down speed it would be DSL2 
) (A
is for asynchronous)
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- Posted by Lurch on December 21st, 2004
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 20:39:24 -0000, "Bobby" <bobby@europe.com> strung
together this:
I'd go for the Netgear. I've got loads of Netgear stuff at home and at
cliets premises and they all work fine, and have done for months.
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- Posted by NoSpam on December 21st, 2004
Bobby wrote:
No.
That article states vanilla ADSL operates at up to "8M and 10M bit/sec".
Once we get anywhere near that speed in the UK, perhaps then we might
start wondering what ADSL2 may have for us.
It's all a long, long way off.
- Posted by Andrew Murray on December 21st, 2004
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If the the up/down speeds are the same then shurely its SDSL not ADSL....?
;-)
- Posted by Andrew Murray on December 21st, 2004
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Not got any experience of anything other than the old BT Voyager 2000 (11b
not 11g like the 2100), but IMHE the BT kit works straight out of the box is
mega simple to setup and even makes setting up security simple, especially
if you use the matching BT USB or PCMCIA wifis.
- Posted by Lurch on December 21st, 2004
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 22:49:29 -0000, "Andrew Murray"
<news@NOSPAMminilimitededitions.cjb.net> strung together this:
Hmm, thought I said that but I seem to have forgot to post it!
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- Posted by Richard Sobey on December 21st, 2004
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:04:08 -0000, "dylan" <spam@none.com> wrote:
Well, quite 
- Posted by Richard Sobey on December 21st, 2004
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:32:40 -0000, "Bobby" <bobby@europe.com> wrote:
Yes, eventually - but it won't be for a while. I'd guestimate a
minimum of 2+ years, but it depends if you're on a busy (e.g. London
area) exchange as these are usually enabled for tha latest things
first.
- Posted by Rob Morley on December 21st, 2004
In article <cq9vk1$85o$1@news8.svr.pol.co.uk>, "dylan" spam@none.com
says...
- Posted by dylan on December 22nd, 2004
D'oh !! my mistake.
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