conexant routers, whats bad about them?

With the SPI firewall they supposedly they don't have enough processor power to get 8mbit throughput through them, plus the chipset's not the best on marginal lines.

They seem to work okay though.
 
Going on the ones I've used:

- Lack of features
- Pig to configure
- Telnet/web management ports open to the world
- Unstable
- Crap at holding up an ADSL connection
 
The firmware does have some odd quirks, if you change certain things, it'll affect others (like selecting PPPoE randomly and turning NAT back on for no reason).
 
For a NAT connection they're a bit useless as there's no uPnP and on the version of firmware I have you can only forward 20 ports.

They aren't too bad to configure, though aren't desperately newbie friendly

TelNet open to the world is INCREDIBLY annoying as there's a server on a port with a completely blank password which can be used to reset the config to default :rolleyes: You can block off web/ftp though thankfully.

Unstable - mine has been fine, but a friend of mine had a different router with the same chipset and it was fine for a while but then went a bit screwy and unstable requiring a reboot a day.

Never had a problem holding up an ADSL connection here on a 50dB+ attenuation line @2272kbps.

The biggest problem I've had with mine is the auto-firmware update "feature" which seemed to flash the firmware with nothing when it couldn't find a file to update with which involved an RMA :(

This one has been stable for 32days+ now, only reason it was rebooted was to try the BT speed checker I think.
 
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