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| Thread ID: 138104 | 2014-10-04 19:54:00 | Netgear Nighthawk R7000 - silly me | Digby (677) | Press F1 |
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| 1385658 | 2014-10-04 19:54:00 | I just bought a Netgear Nighthawk R7000 wifi router. The idea was to allow wireless access to some flatmates. But I was an idiot (sort of) and did not realise that this unit is a router only. So I still need a modem! I wish had bought a modem router all in one! But I liked the nighthawks looks and 3 anntenna etc. Can anyone recommend a good modem that would suit this model (eg nice and fast) Would it pay to go with Netgear (ie the same brand) Or should I try to sell it and buy an all in one unit ? |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1385659 | 2014-10-04 22:53:00 | Take it back, exchange it? LL |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 1385660 | 2014-10-05 20:37:00 | DrayTek DV130. Cheap, solid, does ADSL2+ and VDSL2. That is all :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1385661 | 2014-10-05 20:39:00 | Also, if you're giving Flatmates WiFi access, try something like Gargoyle on a TP-Link WL-WR1043ND. You can assign flatties a bandwidth limit and then throttle them once they hit it, or kill it altogether... stuff like that ! :) It'd be a darn sign cheaper though than the Nighthawk, but no .ac WiFi. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1385662 | 2014-10-05 21:11:00 | A related hijack if I may, Is this www.pbtech.co.nz the router in question? I've been having occasional issues with my current setup but I'm hoping it'll last until fibre comes my way. Seems like this would be useful on fibre as well though and it's cheap enough. I'm using an Asus ADSL2+ modem router with beta firmware configured to do basically what the TP-link does and using the ISP supplied thomson in bridge mode. Anyone on fibre care to comment on what the ISP supplies? do you need your own router and would the TP-link one be all that was needed? I fully intend to go fibre when it eventually gets to my street supposedly in 2016. This is my router www.pbtech.co.nz It's almost 2 years old now and has been rock solid and very fast. A couple of months back it seemed to lose it's configuration and took me a few hours mucking about to get it working again then it happened again this week but came back with a reboot this time. It does run quite hot so I made a cooler for it and I note that it played up this time when I turned the cooler off over night. Looking back at all my router failures (and there's been quite a few) it seems like heat is normally the issue. I have what is similar to a notebook cooler I made out of an old case fan and a 12V plug pack that really drops the temperature from hot to the touch to barely warm and I think that helps. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1385663 | 2014-10-06 12:33:00 | Yeah that one :) Will work with the Thomson in bridge-mode, but that's naturally only required for ADSL2+ / VDSL2. I've just deployed a TP-Link WDR4300 at a customers site running OpenWRT (Current Gargoyle is based on an older OpenWRT which has WiFi bugs on that router), and they've been *loving* it! Just set the WAN to PPPoE and off we go. I'd imagine the TL-WR1043ND would behave similarly. |
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