Billion 7800N -early thoughts

Guys

my iPhone sometimes take 30 seconds when I get in to see the 7800n and connect to it, was thinking about giving it a static IP via the Billion to see if that helps, anyone else had any issues, other than that its been rock solid for wifi, streaming and everything else!!

Mart
 
Guys

Anyone had any issues with their 7800n and an iPhone wifi? Mine just seems to disconnect from the wifi for no reason, I have to go into the iPhone wifi area and tap my wifi SSID and it connects again??

Enabled WMM as I read this can help but it doesn't appear to have

Mart
 
Got one of these coming tomorrow. Hope it'll make ADSL2+ more reliable than my old Netgear 834G so I can actually use my plasma tv at the same time. Even if it doesn't though, I'll still get the benefit of wifi n speeds
 
Is this transfer spped between my laptop and NAS unit via the 7800n look OK to you guys?

I have a N series wifi card installed on my Lenovo

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Looks ok.
Try it wired (ethernet) to compare.
What NAS is it?
Realised i didnt have jumbo frames enabled on my ethernet port on my laptop last night, 8.5MB/s went to 25-30MB/s (maxed the NAS write speed).
 
Hi

I'm thinking about getting the Billion 7800N to replace my trusty Speedtouch 585v6 (always been good at holding a connection). Really after the Wireless N and the Gigabit LAN.

I like the idea of a "tweakable" router like this that looks like it uses a Broadcom chipset (so hopefully should talk to my exchange as well as the 585v6).

A couple of questions:

1) Anyone moved from a Speedtouch modem/router that can comment on whether this is as good at holding the connection and syncs at a decent speed?

2) I've got the idea that the GUI doesn't give much info on line errors (IE. log of Errror Seconds/HEC/FEC etc.) Is this still true on the latest firmware? and if so, anyone know if you can pull more info off a third party app. like Routerstats?

PS. Just moved to ADSL2+ so sort of hope it might sync a little higher than my current modem/router (must be at least 6+ years old now).

Thanks...
 
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2) it runs as default on Routerstats Lite but you can get Routerstats to work by picking out the noise margin, sync speed etc on Router Search Text tab (i have).
 
InQ said:
2) it runs as default on Routerstats Lite but you can get Routerstats to work by picking out the noise margin, sync speed etc on Router Search Text tab (i have).
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Thanks for that. I had had a look at the routestats home page and it looks like they support the 7800n.

It's the line errors I'm more interested in (IE. CRC/HEC/FEC/Error seconds etc.). Can you pick these up via routerstats?
 
mikeo said:
1) Anyone moved from a Speedtouch modem/router that can comment on whether this is as good at holding the connection and syncs at a decent speed?
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I upgraded from a Thomson 585 v7 to a Billion 7800N. The Billion has been working much better for me. It's rock-solid at holding the connection. It's synced at 3139 Kbps at the moment. The 585 was synced at 2016 Kbps when I replaced it.

mikeo said:
2) I've got the idea that the GUI doesn't give much info on line errors (IE. log of Errror Seconds/HEC/FEC etc.) Is this still true on the latest firmware? and if so, anyone know if you can pull more info off a third party app. like Routerstats?
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It works fine with RouterStats. RouterStats reports lots of stats, including SF (CRC) Errors, HEC, Errored Seconds and Severe ES.
 
Just upgraded to the 7800n. My connection is unchanged as I was already at the fastest speed supported by adsl max. Under my old netgear 834g v2 I had bad REIN problems when I tried adsl2+. I identified my plasma tv as the source as my connection was perfect when the tv was off but totally useless when turned on. Could it be possible that the 7800n may be more resistant?
 
dewi & No-One

Thanks for your replies. Sounds promising then.

Think I'll give it a go and order one up on Monday. At worse I've got 7 days to decide if there are any problems with the new router (hopefully not). I know only too well that different modems can react differently on different exchanges (hey... that's three uses of the word "different" in the same sentence!). I've got a ZOOM wireless router in my cupboard that is hopeless on my line.

Question... How have you guys found the wireless range? I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it will be a bit better than the Speedtouch. Most devices are Wireless N capable, bar one laptop. So I'll have to run it in mixed wireless mode.

Currently still in my 10 day "training period" (though not convinced there really is one for ADSL2+ according to some folks) and currently getting:



Think by my stats on ADSL max that I should be able to sync a bit higher than this, so I'll see what a spanking new modem.router can do. TBC

PS. It's currently clocking up a fair few error seconds but the connection seems to be stable strangely enough. This only started when my current router re-sync'd after the first 3 days and it looked like they had removed "interleaving" (ping improved from 45ms to anywhere as low as 25ms!) and FECs stopped being reported. I'll see how it goes over the next week or so and might consider asking my ISP to get interleaving put back on.
 
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