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| Thread ID: 142540 | 2016-07-20 21:45:00 | Range of Broadband Modems/Routers. | spooky (4241) | Press F1 |
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| 1423445 | 2016-07-22 04:36:00 | I was using a W8980. Packed it away now that I changed to fibre. It did a pretty good job, can't say the same for most of their crappy adapters tho. Unless you can find a 3rd party install for some of them, you wont get dual band. If they're dual band So at the mo, I've got 2 spare modems the other one is only Wireless N 300 tho (the ASUS N12U B1). That was OK, but the time in it was wrong. And ASUS never updated the firmware to fix it |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1423446 | 2016-07-22 05:11:00 | I have one of these www.pbtech.co.nz that was rock solid for about 6 months or more until I got fibre. I was using it as an access point for a while after getting fibre but it was too close to the fibre modem/router and didn't really do any better so it's currently turned off. I'm pleasantly surprised at how good the Huawei supplied by spark is doing so far. Unfortunately my old TP-link doesn't support Vlan tagging so I can't use it as my fibre router (at least I don't think it does). Anyway you can use an old router as an access point to extend wi-fi range and that was my original plan. Now though I'm thinking if I need to run a cable to a good spot for the second router I might as well just run it to the bedroom where I need better coverage and use Ethernet. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1423447 | 2016-07-22 05:24:00 | I'm surprised with this Vodafone HG659 too. Havent had any probs with it yet. Altho, it would have been nice if the password for 2.4 and 5 ghz were different My Tplink would be pretty similar to yours Dug. It's just a different modem. Altho you can use yours as a wireless router. On fibre, so can I. (www.tp-link.com) Is NBN Fibre? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1423448 | 2016-07-22 05:34:00 | Unfortunately my old TP-link doesn't support Vlan tagging so I can't use it as my fibre router (at least I don't think it does). They support it with OpenWRT! :D And you can ring Spark and get your UFB connection changed to "Untagged", they submit it to Chorus, whole process takes like 3-4 hours usually and you're done! Super super easy, then you can use *any* WiFi router that supports PPPoE, no VLAN requirements. |
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