router for adsl as well as fibre (when I can get it)

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Im waiting for BT to get there arse out and sort out fibre in my street and until then I want to try and improve my line. I live over 3 miles away from my bt central hub and conqequantly only get between 4 and 5 meg on my 20+ meg line from Zen.

I have a sky black router with custom firmware on it now as its broadcom based and worked more stabily than my old zoom router. I was looking at the new asus routers but dont want to splash £100 on a new router to have to sell it again when I can use Fibre (Zen dont suply a router with there fibre installs) so can I get one that does both. I can stretch my budget to £150 if I have to to save me money in the longer term.

Thx:D
 
The Billion 7800N has an ADSL port and a WAN port so it can do ADSL now and then use the WAN port to fibre modem when available. When you get fibre, you'll be supplied with a fibre modem and a router to go with it. Simply use the 7800N over its WAN port to the modem instead of using the supplied router.

Edit, sorry just read that they dont supply a router? Do they at least supply a modem?
 
Billion 7800N has ADSL port and a WAN port
Asus DSL-N55U has a new firmware which lets you set one LAN port as a WAN port (also has ASDL as standard)


Both great routers, the Asus firmware is still maturing though. They are working quickly on it, using the Asus as my router at home for work.

Chucked the Billion in my mum's house. I'd say the wireless is better on the Asus.
 
i dont think a new router will get you a better speed, the router you have is a netgear with custom firmware? dg834- ? they are very good at getting the most out of a long line and holding it. are you using the filters supplied with the router ?
 
yeah I think they call it the Netgear DG934G I have the DG team firmware flashed to it.. I use a adsl nation x-fe1 micro-filter as I found it to be better than the standard sky suplied one when I tested them all out.

I just checked I have to wait until the end of march for my street to be fibre enabled :(

I will look at the billion but am swaying towards the asus especially as the wireless is pants at time on the sky router I have and the asus looks better ;)
 
Not sure if you can do SNR tweaking on the Asus but the billion supports it, adds about 1.3MB's on to my connection.
 
that will be usefull as these are my stats from my netgear

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 4538 kbps 1039 kbps
Line Attenuation 49 db 15 db
Noise Margin 9 db 5 db

shame ocuk are so expensive with the asus. :(
 
I'd rule out the 7800n for fibre as the ewan port can cripple your speeds - see the billion UK forum for more detail on the problems and they are addressing it with new hardware in 2013 that has a GB ewan port
 
Spudgun said:
I'd rule out the 7800n for fibre as the ewan port can cripple your speeds - see the billion UK forum for more detail on the problems and they are addressing it with new hardware in 2013 that has a GB ewan port
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It doesn't have the power to route 80Mb/s WAN to LAN?

Port speed should be an issue as FTTC is only up to 80Mb/s at the moment.
 
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