Anyone experienced a NETGEAR DGN 2200 router on Plusnet?

[#1]

Hi,
I have a relatively old BT Voyager 2110 wireless router which has just seen me through a "interesting"
migration from 20CN to 21CN and a "upgrade"  to ADSL2. After a couple of months of erratic performance,
including a BTW line fault things appear to have stabalised for the moment. (see stats below)
Now I am looking at higher wireless speeds and did a bit of search on this Netgear router.
As usual reviews seem mixed but overall not bad if avoiding
the early firmware. Also PCWorld have a bit of an offer on at the moment.
Any thoughts plse
2110 Stats
Line Mode ADSL2   Line State Show Time
Line Power State L0   Line Up Time 20:20:13:09
Line Coding Trellis On   Line Up Count 2

Statistics Downstream Upstream
Line Rate 1361 Kbps 664 Kbps
Noise Margin 4.5 dB 5.5 dB
Line Attenuation 66.5 dB 39.3 dB
Output Power 0.0 dBm 12.9 dBm
MSGC (number in overhead channel data) 12 12
B (number of bytes in Mux Frame) 158 20
M (number of Mux Frames in FEC Frame) 1 4
T (Mux Frames over sync bytes) 1 4
R (number of check bytes in FEC Frame) 16 12
S (ratio of FEC over PMD Frame length) 3.7135 4.0000
L (number of bits in PMD Frame) 377 192
D (interleaver depth) 8 8
Delay 7 msec 8 msec
Super Frames 107761752  107761750 
Super Frame Errors 108136  0 
RS Words 1939711542  758207926 
RS Correctable Errors 37014420  124 
RS Uncorrectable Errors 665830  0 
HEC Errors 94731  10 
OCD Errors 2174  0 
LCD Errors 0  0 
ES Errors 0  0

[#2]

That's a massive amount of line attenuation.  I believe certain routers are better at coping with this than others so you might want to seek out a router with a good reputation in this respect.

[#3]

Hi ReedRichard,
Yes it is but perhaps I should have said my BT line is 6.6km from exchange so not unexpected.
In fact I think the DS attenuation is a sort of default maximum, the upstream attenuation is partly
as a result of limiting the upstream speed.
But you make a very good point about what I should be looking for in a replacement router.
Thanks for your feedback.