Kent Fredric wrote, On 29/04/09 17:36:
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Craig Falconer wrote:You're generally better with a router IMO.
The current routers available on the market have left me unimpressed,
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I got an old school Nokia M1122 from a friend which is so rugged it has
Awesome box - but they'll never do ADSL2.
( One model at a place I worked was so bad it literally needed hourly reboots with a 5 minute down time just to get anything done, at the time we put it down to faults in the underlying service or just something that happens, but now I know better )
Yeah - there are so many points where DSL can have issues. And because a lot of users are on wholesale, there's a huge chain of people to work through to report any sort of line fault.
Any decent DSL modem/router should be returning you info on the line noise rates - if you're at 50+ dB then there's no real chance of decent speeds.
Mind you - a decent router copes an awful lot better with adverse conditions than a budget one. If your signal is a little marginal then a proper (read as "really sodding expensive") router does the job better. Flashing your wrt with a new linux firmware tends not to help - a lot of it is the DSL modem's firmware which is different to what the routers run for an OS.
(we have ~300 routers around NZ - I think I know a bit about this :) -- Craig Falconer
