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| 1268975 | 2012-04-08 23:49:00 | I have a Thomson 585.. modem, given to me by Telecoms. Recently I've been losing internet, perhaps 4 or 5 or maybe more, times a day - most annoying. I've rung Telecoms about it, a line test shows all is fine. I mentioned their modem, but they hum and ha about replacing it and want me to take it to friends place etc, to test it, really inconvenient. I'm probably faced with buying a new one. I've noticed, on this forum, that the Lynksys Wrt54g is favoured by some. But they've been around for a bit now. If I got one at a good price, I wondered how one of those open source firmware replacements would go; i.e. Tomato, openwrt . Even if there's any advantage in doing that? Another one I've heard about is to turn a computer into a router, that sounds like an interesting project but quite a lot of trouble and I'd still need a modem and a wireless access point rather than having an all-in -one device. What would be people's thoughts on this? |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 1268976 | 2012-04-09 00:36:00 | I'd look at having further line test done. The tests your ISP does fall short of the tests Telecom does, as their individual responsibilities regarding the service are divided somewhere along the way. Try the Telecom faults testing services in addition to your ISPs tesing. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1268977 | 2012-04-09 00:43:00 | I think the WRT54G is a router only, not a modem /router. If you want a good wireless modem/router, I can recommend the Netcomm NB6Plus4Wn. |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 1268978 | 2012-04-09 00:59:00 | Tomato / Gargoyle is great if you want to do nifty things like QoS, or per-device bandwidth limits, or any number of other things along those lines. But yes, the WRT54GL is still quite well regarded, though the 16MB of RAM is starting to get a little on the low side for the newer Gargoyle builds etc. whereas the likes of the TP-Link WR741ND have 32MB which can make quite a difference! As mentioned you'd have to have some description of a device to "give" ADSL to it, such as a Linksys AM300 (Harder to find these days) or a Draytek DV120. The DV120 is top of the line, awesome, reliable, can't beat it :D The DV120 will set you back ~$100. Once you've run it for a few days in tandem with your Thomson router providing Wifi, you can then establish quite quickly if it's your device, or something else causing the issues. My money says it's going to be well worth the investment for you to get the DV120. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1268979 | 2012-04-09 09:08:00 | The DV120 is top of the line, awesome, reliable, can't beat it :D The DV120 will set you back ~$100. Once you've run it for a few days in tandem with your Thomson router providing Wifi, you can then establish quite quickly if it's your device, or something else causing the issues. My money says it's going to be well worth the investment for you to get the DV120. Thanks Chill and thanks to the other contributors as well. That seems like it could be the way to go. I see Acquire and Ascent both have the item for sale. I notice it has one LAN port; I guess if I used the Thomson router as a wireless access point and used it also as a hub/switch for the wired part of my network and stayed away from the WAN port, that could work. |
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