New router needed HELP!!

cruisinbeatz

cruisinbeatz

cruisinbeatz

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Hi everyone, im in a spot of bother, I need a new router and I can't decide on which to go for. I'm getting about 6-7 mb down with about 448 up?. My reason is, I have a linksys wag320n and it's served me well over the years however it is not connecting to my ISP any more. I get a sync of 6800/7200 90% of the time with it but it just won't work. So I got out my trusty home hub 3. It works but only just coming in around 5900 sync speed each time. So it's not syncing near as fast as the old linksys. and the wireless is poo on it if I'm honest. (old house, stone wall between it and my room)

Anyhow anyone got any ideas on what to go for? I was looking the linksys x3000 and Netgear dgnd3700 but supposedly both are not great on adsl1? Mayb you guys might know better, I thnk it's adsl 1 I'm on.

Thanks in advance.
 
DrayTek are exceptional and very large in networking circles, as a company we've installed c. 200+ products over the last two years without a single failure. Intuitive and straightforward config and performance second to none.

If all you want is a wireless ADSL router with brilliant range and reliability, you can't beat it.
 
+1 for the Billion 7800N. Rock solid on slower/noisy lines plus you can tweak the SNR to get some more speed out of it. Mine has been install and forget.
 
Thanks for the replys guys, so those routers all will work fine on adsl1?

Like the look of dreytek one but it I was spending that kind of money I'd like gigabit ports.
I see from another thread in the networking section that the asus has a few problems, is this the case with yours KIA or maybe you've had experience with them before?
The Billion router looks good specs wise but I've no clue about tweaking SNR, I could be doing with some extra sped however lol.
 
Draytek stuff is indeed awesome, I have found they train at a little less speed than other units however and very few (if any?) of the models have SnR tweaking.
 
I use Drayteks for all my remote sites as the VPN's are a doddle to set up and they are pretty much trouble free. Like you, I've found they dont sync as fast as some of the other routers.
 
Hmm... Draytek seems to be a good job by searching for info on them. When you guys say that they don't seem to sync as high as other models, are we talking a lot slower sync or are we talking a few 100kb?
 
On my home connection, i sync around 4.5MB with a Draytek 2820 and around 5.5MB with the Billion 7800N. If I tweak the SNR, I can get that to between 6 - 6.5MB on the Billion. Hope this helps.
 
tribz said:
On my home connection, i sync around 4.5MB with a Draytek 2820 and around 5.5MB with the Billion 7800N. If I tweak the SNR, I can get that to between 6 - 6.5MB on the Billion. Hope this helps.
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Wow really? now that sounds good to me. I'm on the same boat. When you say tweak the SNR what exactly is involved in doing that? and does it make the connection any less stable?
 
Its just a case of logging on to http://192.168.1.254/snr.cgi on the router and entering a code as per here http://www.increasebroadbandspeed.co.uk/billion-7800n to modify the SNR ratio.

I've just done the following on mine which gave me the below speeds.

SNR of 6 - Sync Down 5205 / Up 1040
SNR of 3 - Sync Down 5868 / Up 1031
SNR of 0.6 - Sync Down 6676 / Up 1040

The 0.6 setting rarely disconnects, the Billion is excellent at holding a poor quality line. Theres a big thread on here somewhere about them.
 
Thanks for the help, sorry for late reply. Basically my steps were that I tried other equipment first. I have a Netgear wifi extender which I have found kills both my linksys and the bt home hub Internet for some reason. Any keeping it turned off my linksys works. However only for about 2 days, the router slows down the stops working the same as if the Netgear extender was turned on. But reboot the linksys and my Internet will go for another 2 days. I really can't understand this at all. I have a cordless phone beside the router and thought that might be the problem but then even ethernet devices won't work. Any thoughts guys or is my linksys router goosed and just one of the above mentioned routers?
 
Well guys I'm still in bother, end of it all I went for the asus 55u but that's not my problem, I'm still getting the initial same problem and bt said there is no problems at their end.

I connect all up the router says connected all the stats show up nicely, sync speeds and an SNR of about 6/7 which it's always been since I can imagine. But nothing can browse the Internet. Doesn't matter which router I use.

So I went and got the wall socket replaced alone with a new nte2000 (same as origional setup). All wired perfect but same problem. Really stuck here. BT say they can send an engineer out but I want to know does anyone else have any other ideas what it might be before I get them to send one out? Want to make sure I can check all so that they can't charge me £99, lol.
 
Need more info.

Are your devices being assigned IP addresses? If so, how? DHCP or Manual?

Do you have valid DNS entries on client?

Can you ping ANYTHING? (Try Google DNS servers f.ex 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4)

Does the router have it's own ping tool in the web interface? If so, try pinging something with it. Again, try 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4
 
All devices are getting ip addresses and they are all different and none clash, dhcp assigned. This is happening with 3 different routers. Can't ping nothing, times out on all devices, wired or wireless.

What I'm worried about is if I have missed something to check.
 
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