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Thread ID: 141708	2016-02-08 02:52:00	Huawei HG 695	Peter Coleman (597)	Press F1

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1415725	2016-02-11 22:16:00	We are talking about a router that retails for sub $200 and is often given away here. Would I use one in a business critical situation or if hosting services? The problem is they're regularly advertised as "Enterprise ready" and a bunch of other stupid stuff like that. The TG585 back in the day was being given out to enterprises, I worked at Ricoh and they were the bane of our existence trying to get rid of them on the WAN. They buy them for ~$12-14 a pop, give or take, so the "Worth $199" is basically just a figure that Telecom were plucking outta the air back in the day. I've been using the Xiaomi MiWiFi to build my own firmware and things, and it's solid as! They go for 129 yuan which works out to be approx NZD$30-35. The range on these is way superior to anything that Thomson/Technicolor or Huawei have put out of late (Internal vs external antenna) and the fact I've based the firmware on OpenWRT means I don't have the same stupid issues with stuff dying on them as the common ISP-supplied routers. So it seems that the problem is really just the terrible firmware on the units, and that price is not an indicator of quality or lack thereof.	Chilling_Silence (9)
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