Problems with router supplied by 02 Broadband

[Demon]

I messed around with many ADSL rotuers, and have to agree that a WRT54GL + Tomato is exceedingly stable..

I actually use my old DG834N with DG Team firmware, set to modem only mode (So I can use the SNR Tweaking) with it, and all my 'issues' of disconnecting etc have disappeared.

 

[Nymins]

Just got my DG834GT today, paid about £17 for it of eBay. Took me awhile getting the firmware on it though cause i needed to use an XP based machine. The upgrading software didn't work on Vista for me.

Tweaked it a bit and its sitting happily at 6025 kbps, downloading now at about 615kB/s of torrents. Hopefully it will stay connected at this speed, but it has been for almost 5 hours now.

My O2 Box got ~5500kbps in the mornings, but always disconnected in the evenings and went down to as low as ~3800kbps at times. Hopefully the DG834GT will hold this sync!

 

[Lethagized]

Strange, that's pretty much the opposite experience to most people. The Speedtouches often have problems in games but the GTs don't. I know there was one release of the DGTeam firmware a few months back that had 'issues', but that's been sorted now afaik. My own GT/DGTeam setup has been rock solid for months now. I'm actually scared to upgrade the firmware in case it's not as good



I used to have this issue on an old GT (We're talking about 3 years ago though) - I'm not sure if it was just very old firmware or a duff router. The 5 or 6 I've used since then haven't had the issue.

Well, i've tried the V1.01.32 - DGTeam Rev. 0743 FW and it plays L4D and TF2 fine now so i'm happy. Currently synced at 13,825 / 1325

 

[mattyfez]

Thats interesting, I don't think I have had to reset/turn my O2 box off for months, and its always at/or above 16meg/1.3meg....a vast improvement over my old be*box which used to spit the dummy out once a week or so.

 

[slinxy]

I totally agree that the router is pants, mine keeps power cycling making my connection very unreliable for gaming.... I phone up serveal times and emailed them, they keep telling me that the issue is not at there end (the comment no ... sherlock! comes to mind) I keep telling them the router is power cycling but they just wont change it.