My ex-wife, bereft of my ever-present tech vigilance, has ordered TalkTalk for her new place. I've spent the weekend trying to persuade the branded D-link router to behave. We have a set of iOS devices which are randomly allowed the internet or not. It will say they're connected but about half will not actually load a single webpage etc. Resetting/turning off often lets them on -- at the expense of a different device. Then if it goes to sleep, it probably won't have any internet. Nor does the supposed LAN work for Minecraft even if all are connected.
The problem is that she's very short of money and TalkTalk are much cheaper. Am I better advised o get a semi-decent router for her (n speed nice but not essential) to act in bridge mode over ethernet out of the TalkTalk POS (in which case, a solid recommendation would be welcome) or to advise her to send the whole thing back and pay a higher monthly premium? BT routers seem to have improved recently (I *bought* one from them to replace the last one which was dreadful and it's been pretty reliable). Ideally I'd like a mid-priced router I can get into eg to assign fixed IPs to devices via MAC addresses and so on if need be, for troubleshooting. Needless to say the TalkTalk one (and the old BT one she has in a box) don't seem to allow that. I assume it won't make much actual difference to the speed etc (rural town in the west) which seems quite reasonable (?) Sent from my iPad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
