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Router advice (looking to buy another)
18-08-2013 12:27 PM
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18-08-2013 2:06 PM
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The prevailing groupthink on the Internet seems to be that Broadcom chipset based routers are the best because you
Re: Router advice (looking to buy another)
18-08-2013 2:10 PM
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I use/d a HH2 for about a year before I got fibre (it is now slaved to provide me with VOIP).
Port forwarding etc just works.
Re: Router advice (looking to buy another)
18-08-2013 2:16 PM
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Quote from: Hairy Your demands are very few.
You might think that from what is described in this thread !,
but here is the underlying issue - https://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,117440
Re: Router advice (looking to buy another)
18-08-2013 2:36 PM
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18-08-2013 3:00 PM
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Quote from: ejs The prevailing groupthink on the Internet seems to be that Broadcom chipset based routers are the best because you have tocan monitor the ADSL stats 24/7.
I'll bear that in mind. Thanks.
Quote from: Hairy HH2 or 3 ... Port forwarding etc just works.
Coolio. Thanks for that. I'll look into it. Is HH the actual brand name, or does it stand for something? And are these 'broadcom' chipsets? Um, I guess I'll see when I find some to check out.
Hi Purleigh. Yes, certainly needed so my games can function properly, so I do need the easy control over port forwarding etc. and for that to really, actually work. lol
Re: Router advice (looking to buy another)
18-08-2013 3:02 PM
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A HH2 or a HH3 are usually available cheaply, on ebay or free on freecycle where I got mine. (Still in the box never used!)
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18-08-2013 3:31 PM
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18-08-2013 3:49 PM
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No hacking needed.
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18-08-2013 3:59 PM
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18-08-2013 6:17 PM
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http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Shop/ShopDetail.asp?ProductID=7898
http://www.draytek.co.uk/products/vigor120.html
http://www.draytek.co.uk/support/kb_vigor100_setup.html
http://www.amazon.co.uk/DrayTek-Vigor-120-external-Ethernet/dp/B0032Q120Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=137...
Re: Router advice (looking to buy another)
18-08-2013 6:32 PM
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18-08-2013 6:51 PM
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Quote from: ejs After terrible gaming problems mostly blamed on the Technicolor 582n router,
I have had no issues with Thompson routers before the 582, my old Speedtouch 716 did sterling service for several years. This new router seems ok as well.
Re: Router advice (looking to buy another)
18-08-2013 9:35 PM
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Quote from: Hairy BT HH's WORK on PN nothing to do but put your login details in.
No hacking needed.
In reading the wiki article (already being mindful of what you said about those made by Technicolor, ejs ), aside from all the stuff about version this and that, was this line:
Quote The BT Home Hub can only be used with the BT Total Broadband package without modification; the 1.0, 1.5, 2A, 2B and 3A versions can be unlocked.
Which I could only read as the HH is locked generally, so I would have to go to lengths to ensure I got the right version which can be unlocked (i.e. hacked or cracked in some way with some kind of technical messing to subvert a lockdown that I really don't want. Then it also says:
Quote The BT Home Hub configuration software is compatible with both Mac and Windows operating systems, although use of this is optional and computers without the BT software will still be able to connect to the Hub and browse the Internet normally.
All well and good that it can be used to connect, but why is there configuration software? I can only read that as meaning configuration can only be done via the software. Else what is the point of it existing? Now you say you just put your password in and go. Great. But I need to be able to configure settings.
@Purleigh. Thanks for the suggestion. I had wondered if I could do that, but ejs raises a good point. Originally I'm doing no security to eliminate it from the equation of what could be causing my gaming problems and would prefer to have security running. I have since, however, come to see that my game does just run better without AV/Firewall monitoring things and slowing it all down, hogging resources - especially when I'm recording it all too. Yeah, yeah, I know, get a better computer etc. lol So from that perspective I am still likely to run with no security even though I don't want to.
Re: Router advice (looking to buy another)
18-08-2013 10:00 PM
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Quote from: Razer but why is there configuration software?
There's configuration software for the sake of it really. Belkin seem pretty bad in giving out Windows software to control their routers. There used to be a "setup wizard", more Windows software, for older Thomson (before they renamed themselves to Technicolor) routers. There really isn't much point in this software existing but it's probably a good excuse to get an icon onto your desktop, in case you forget what brand router you bought or who your ISP is. The makers might claim putting a CD into your computer is easier than typing an IP address into a web browser.
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