- Wireless ADSL router/modem recommendations
- Posted by Paul on October 26th, 2004
can anyone recommend a wireless adsl router/modem please
- Posted by Alex Heney on October 26th, 2004
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 18:40:59 +0000 (UTC), "Paul" <Paul@noemail.com>
wrote:
Lots of people can.
This gets asked in here every few days, and tends to get roughly the
same answers each time.
FWIW, I have been very pleased with my 3Com 3CRWE754G72-A, but I have
never used any other to compare it with.
there are a few sites around with comparative reviews, such as
<http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=456>, but whatever is
recommended, some people have different experiences. And ignore the
prices shown in that site, they are well out of date, and are much
cheaper now.
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- Posted by Martin² on October 27th, 2004
Draytek Vigor 2600G (or 2600VG) is the best, not cheap, but affordable
compared to professional / office lit.
D-Link, Linksys etc. are OK
Belkin is cheap, but not so reliable,
Netgear is very cheap, forever updating firmware, and has virtually no
customer support.
You pays your money..
Regards,
Martin
- Posted by Simon Pleasants on October 27th, 2004
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 02:57:07 +0100, "Martin²" <never@give.one> wrote:
D-Link, Linksys, Belkin, Netgear and US Robotics - getting a good
machine seems to be a certain amount of luck. All have people
complaining about crappy units but yet still huge amounts of them are
sold each week and with many happy customers - myself included. I
expect the silent majority are pretty happy.
The Draytek units have an excellent reputation and are packed with
features but I suspect selling one to a networking newbie at £150
might be a tall order when there are Ebuyer / Dabsvalue units for £40.
- Posted by Secret S on October 27th, 2004
"Paul" <Paul@noemail.com> wrote in message
news:clm5nq$cae$1@titan.btinternet.com...
The Belkin kit has worked flawlessly for me. Cheap and it works.
**SS**
- Posted by Stephen \(aka steford\) on October 27th, 2004
Paul wrote:
Lost a bit of funtionality (dyndns client) and a few niceties but gained way
more reliability to compensate when moving to 3Com from Linksys and Netgear
prior to that.
- Posted by Jake P on October 27th, 2004
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 18:40:59 +0000 (UTC), "Paul" <Paul@noemail.com>
wrote:
My Netgear DG834G was fabulously stable until I updated the firmware
to the most current version (1.05.00), after which it frequently
dropped the connection. Now everything's back to normal after
restoring the firmware back to the shipping version (1.03.00).
Buggy firmware updates are the norm with Netgear IME.
Jake
- Posted by John Hardaker on October 27th, 2004
"Paul" <Paul@noemail.com> wrote in message
news:clm5nq$cae$1@titan.btinternet.com...
Robotics 9106. Mine is excellent but not used Wi-Fi yet.
- Posted by David Wade on October 28th, 2004
"Secret S" <secretsquirral@nospma.com> wrote in message
news:417fa7a9$0$27540$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk...
Which Belkin. I have an old(ish) 802.11b Wireless Access Point and it is
pretty nearly flawless.
However I have now been fiddling about with two of the F5D7630uk4A for
different
friends who have bought them without asking first. They both have given
problems with dropping
connections and and loosing the wireless link. Not sure if this is inherent
with 11g or the Belkin
but both have bee right pains...
- Posted by Martin² on October 28th, 2004
Erm, modem / routers are hardly ever a problem,
it's the WIFI bit of the kit that can be real pain,
so I don't think you are in position to call it 'excellent'...
(probably nothing wrong with Robotics)
Regards,
Martin
- Posted by Simon Pleasants on October 28th, 2004
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:43:47 +0100, Jake P
<jake@!!!nospam!!!.jake.org.uk> wrote:
Then I suggest you try to upgrade again - and reset the machine after
you do. Most people round here have found v1.05 to be considerably
superior in terms of stability - myself included. Although my
connection did drop last week, for about 10 secs, it had an up time of
over 1500 hours (9 weeks) when it did.
- Posted by Jake P on October 28th, 2004
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:45:04 +0100, Simon Pleasants
<plesbit@hotmail.com> wrote:
By reset you mean simply power-cycle? If so I did that (I always do).
Since going back to v1.03.00 44 hours ago it's been online for, well,
44 hours!
I may give it another go in time.
Cheers
Jake
- Posted by Sunil Sood on October 28th, 2004
"David Wade" <g8mqw@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:2uaq3hF27c9u3U1@uni-berlin.de
Hmm - I have the F5D7630uk4A and that has been trouble free..
Regards
Sunil
- Posted by Peter M on October 28th, 2004
On 28 Oct 2004, in uk.telecom.broadband, "Sunil Sood" wrote:
and the friend who has one is not complaining. I went on his PC
to look at it (when Alan with the Mac was having problems) and I
wanted to be able to go screen to screen to compare settings...
--
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- Posted by Kráftéé on October 29th, 2004
Simon Pleasants wrote:
Hasn't worked for me, only way I got mine half way stable was to let it send
me the log everytime it fills up (if you can call 48 lines full) & even then
it still falls over at around 36 - 48 hours.
Think I'm going to try a 3com & see if that's any better...
- Posted by Phillip Deackes on October 29th, 2004
In article <2uaq3hF27c9u3U1@uni-berlin.de>, David Wade wrote:
..
It was an issue with the Belkin F5D7630. Mine suffered the same problem.
Belkin have recently released new firmware which addresses the problem. Have a
look on their site.
Interestingly, several of the all-in-one units are the same internally and are
simply re-badged by different companies - Belkin, US Robotics and SMC are
three companies I know of who do the same unit in a different case with their
respective logos on the front. In fact, they are flashable with each others
firmware too. I use a Belkin flashed with SMC firmware because I find it more
reliable than the Belkin version. It offers some different features too.
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- Posted by Secret S on October 31st, 2004
"David Wade" <g8mqw@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:2uaq3hF27c9u3U1@uni-berlin.de...
I have the F5D7630uk4A. When you say dropping connection, do you mean if the
connection isn't used for a short while, you have to re-connect from the
router set up page?
If so, then it's probably the default time out setting. You can change this
to '0' and it will keep your connection to the net permanantly.
**SS**
- Posted by Simon Pleasants on November 1st, 2004
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 04:02:32 +0100, "Kráftéé"
<kraftee@spammersbogoff&die.kraftee.plus.com> wrote:
I read somewhere that a number of companies, Netgear being one, build
their units in a number of different countries (presumably all where
cheap labour is available) and not always using the exact same
components. As a result machines that appear the same outside may
have considerable variations in build quality - which would adequately
explain why some people get rock solid machines and others get
absolute dogs.
Unfortunately this problem is not unique to Netgear and unfortunately
there is naff all you can do about when looking to buy since you have
no way of legislating what batch the retailer is stocking at that
time. Indeed the retailer is probably none the wiser themselves.
They certainly have a good reputation. Not sure if they suffer from
the affliction described above.
- Posted by T i m on November 1st, 2004
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 02:42:49 +0100, "Martin²" <never@give.one> wrote:
My D-Link DI-701 (long term) basic 'router' wasn't a problem untill
it met the Via Rhine ethernet chip in my Acer (well I say *my* it's
been with Acer a month now ..?) and lots of new cards / machines with
the Realtech chipsets, when it fails to handle DHCP as it should.
I have contacted D-Link T/S twice about it now and didn't get a follow
up to either call .. so bought a Trust / QTec one instead (cheap)
and that works fine with all the above. ;-)
I've not enabled the 802.11g part of the router as I still use the
Netgear ME102 AP (don't fix what's not broken etc ..) ;-)
All the best ..
T i m
