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Routers
27-03-2015 12:48 PM
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27-03-2015 1:00 PM
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Re: Routers
29-03-2015 11:46 AM
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Quote from: victorhoy Anyone using Asus DSL-AC68U ADSL/VDSL or DrayTek Vigor 2860N VDSL/ADSL? Just wondering which one would be better. I have use the Draytek before on adsl and had no problems with it. Just wondering if the Asus (cheaper) is good/better than the Draytek for normal home.( wireless tv, bluray, laptops, 3 gaming comps, tablets and mobiles. At the moment I am using the BT HH5 but it keeps dropping wireless.
The Draytek's are very good, I've got an 2850n which I've just taken out of service for a while & replaced it with a Billion 8800AXL, the Billion has the edge for being a bit more user friendly than the Draytek, however the Billion doesn't have the range of the Draytek which has external aerials.
I did consider the ASUS unit, but I wasn't sure if it needed a modem to be attached or not, so I chose the Billion unit instead, which I knew wouldn't need the external modem.
If you were to ask me if I would/will swap back to the Draytek, the answer is probably because it's a better unit, but the all round user friendliness of the Billion is a real bonus.
Re: Routers
29-03-2015 12:38 PM
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never found the BT hubs to be up to much, but like most "free" kit they are limited in the number of devices they will allow to connect on the primary LAN.
also billion sell companion kit for their routers so you can get a WAP unit that's simple to setup (although like most of their kit its not cheap) and works all the time / personally I opted to get half a dozen home plugs and just went wired
Re: Routers
29-03-2015 1:43 PM
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Quote from: nanotm but like most "free" kit they are limited in the number of devices they will allow to connect on the primary LAN.
Nonsense - Source?
Re: Routers
29-03-2015 1:52 PM
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"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: Routers
29-03-2015 1:56 PM
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Re: Routers
29-03-2015 2:22 PM
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29-03-2015 2:28 PM
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As usual I suspect you've read something technical and misinterpreted it. Routers don't generally fall over due to too many devices on the LAN but may well have problems with maintaining lots of PAT mappings. Not the same thing!
Re: Routers
29-03-2015 3:08 PM
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they are limited by something and then start to act up then fail, some are limited below the failure point (a certain isp used to allow only 2 wifi or lan clients on their router which they insisted was used for the connection despite the fact if you bought the exact same router from the shop you could connect up to 20 clients without problems) if you need a decent router with good stability for a large number of client connections your better off buying a decent third party one.
Re: Routers
29-03-2015 3:24 PM
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Quote from: nanotm simple fact is the majority of "free" routers cannot cope with more than a handful of devices being used
Majority? Again, source?
Re: Routers
30-03-2015 1:31 PM
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Is it Wifi?
Number of NAT routings?
Size of routing table?
DHCP failure
DNS problems
etc...
"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
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