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| Thread ID: 134925 | 2013-09-04 04:29:00 | MODEM ADVICE PLEASE Thomson keeps dropping connection | jwig (15664) | Press F1 |
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| 1352685 | 2013-09-06 02:27:00 | Yeah ditch the Thomson, easiest way to ensure it's not the issue, and those things are *easy* to make fall over, l Are the Technicolor Telecom modems any better ?? (I'm guessing not) |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1352686 | 2013-09-06 02:42:00 | Are the Technicolor Telecom modems any better ?? (I'm guessing not) I heard a lot of people said the TG585 was rubbish but I never had one. I've had no problems yet with my new TG589vn v2, nor did I have issues with my ST536v6 before it. That said, the web interface is still insane. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1352687 | 2013-09-06 03:48:00 | I heard a lot of people said the TG585 was rubbish but I never had one. I've had no problems yet with my new TG589vn v2, nor did I have issues with my ST536v6 before it. That said, the web interface is still insane. I was told, 'unofficially' by a Telecom help deskie, that some (maybee all?) of the Telecom modems have a secret back door to give Telecom remote access to the modems. Thats why some actually had a 2nd IP adress & why the user was unable to change some settings/get full admin access (on some Telecom modems) . Maybee that is part of the reason for the strange web interface ?? I know that the old Telecom dlinks will be bricked if you tried to flash/update with std dlink firmware (oops) :blush: |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1352688 | 2013-09-06 04:05:00 | They do have a remote access feature which you can turn off in the web config. If it actually turns it off is a different question... but I have done a portscan on the thing with GRC shields UP and it is full stealth... The interface is horribly unintuitive in my opinion. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1352689 | 2013-09-06 04:17:00 | Nah Technicolor *bought out* Thomson, it's the same routers, same firmware that dies super easy. I tried one of their VDSL2 modems on my home link a week or two back. It's "better" but all you have to do is fire up a TeamSpeak3 client while playing Team Fortress2 and it'll fall to pieces :p | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1352690 | 2013-09-06 04:43:00 | Nah Technicolor *bought out* Thomson, it's the same routers, same firmware that dies super easy. I tried one of their VDSL2 modems on my home link a week or two back. It's "better" but all you have to do is fire up a TeamSpeak3 client while playing Team Fortress2 and it'll fall to pieces :p Interesting, I can only assume that wasn't a TG589vn v2, because the only way I can get this to die is to throw >2000 concurrent connections through it (which I occasionally do, and it's annoying that it causes a reboot, but hey). Still waiting for Asus' DSL-N66U to land here so I can replace it, heh. |
inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1352691 | 2013-09-06 04:56:00 | Yeah same deal with the v1 and v2. The v2 is better, don't get me wrong, but it's still easy to make it fall to pieces... | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1352692 | 2013-09-06 04:57:00 | all you have to do is fire up a TeamSpeak3 client while playing Team Fortress2 and it'll fall to pieces :p I've done that, well not with TF2, so maybe that's why. It was fine for ~3 hours of gaming. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1352693 | 2013-09-06 05:28:00 | Yeah same deal with the v1 and v2. The v2 is better, don't get me wrong, but it's still easy to make it fall to pieces... Sadly there aren't any reasonably-priced alternatives yet :( |
inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1352694 | 2013-09-06 07:21:00 | Yeah the DrayTek DV2760, and I've actually had surprisingly good success with the Innbox V50-U as well. | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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