We moved to a rural location in March and Broadband with a Belkin N router provided an unreliable 0.7Mbit. The BT 2700HGV and Netgear DG834GT were both supposed to be good on long lines so these were acquired.
In the meantime the bell wire was removed, a crackling on the line traced to an external fault (loose cover on a pole box), the screw terminals were replaced with gel crimps in the junction box and the ageing master socket swapped for a NTE200 with filtered faceplate.
With either router this gave a sync of around 2.2 to 2.6 meg but still with drop outs. Overall I preferred the Netgear only because it gave so much information to programs like Routerstats or Tone. I did try the DGteam firmware but went back.
The reliability was a little frustrating so I started to consider the Billion which arrived yesterday
It was very quick and easy to setup. The wireless range is excellent.
The initial sync was 200k lower than the Netgear - the attenuation went up to 63db from 57db. However I then dropped the SNR to 9db with a sync of 2720 and it has remained rock solid since.
I have also enabled the Phyre option and there are less errors
Configuration to a local webserver requires a firewall rule and a port forwarding rule (not obvious)
Why do you have to look up a bizarre value in a table to adjust the target SNR ?
Stats on the web interface are very poor it just says Errs - which are 0. The ADSL info --stats command on the telnet interfaces gives all the usual suspects in detail
Like the Netgear which gets silly hot the Billion has been raised to allow air underneath - why do manufacturers put those sill little feet on ?
The Billion works with RouterstatsLite and am seeing if I can persuade Routerstats to work.
So at the moment I have a very good sync speed which seems very reliable
I will adjust it slightly to get just over 2848 because those silly silly people at BT give you an extra 0.5M.
I'll post some thoughts in a week
In the meantime the bell wire was removed, a crackling on the line traced to an external fault (loose cover on a pole box), the screw terminals were replaced with gel crimps in the junction box and the ageing master socket swapped for a NTE200 with filtered faceplate.
With either router this gave a sync of around 2.2 to 2.6 meg but still with drop outs. Overall I preferred the Netgear only because it gave so much information to programs like Routerstats or Tone. I did try the DGteam firmware but went back.
The reliability was a little frustrating so I started to consider the Billion which arrived yesterday
It was very quick and easy to setup. The wireless range is excellent.
The initial sync was 200k lower than the Netgear - the attenuation went up to 63db from 57db. However I then dropped the SNR to 9db with a sync of 2720 and it has remained rock solid since.
I have also enabled the Phyre option and there are less errors
Configuration to a local webserver requires a firewall rule and a port forwarding rule (not obvious)
Why do you have to look up a bizarre value in a table to adjust the target SNR ?
Stats on the web interface are very poor it just says Errs - which are 0. The ADSL info --stats command on the telnet interfaces gives all the usual suspects in detail
Like the Netgear which gets silly hot the Billion has been raised to allow air underneath - why do manufacturers put those sill little feet on ?
The Billion works with RouterstatsLite and am seeing if I can persuade Routerstats to work.
So at the moment I have a very good sync speed which seems very reliable
I will adjust it slightly to get just over 2848 because those silly silly people at BT give you an extra 0.5M.
I'll post some thoughts in a week
