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| 1412011 | 2015-12-05 12:00:00 | I'm yet to find an all-in-one that's VDSL and Dual-band WiFi that I'm moderately impressed with. | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1412012 | 2015-12-05 19:24:00 | I have this www.pbtech.co.nz since june this year. It has been very stable so far and I'm pretty hard on routers. I can't comment on it's potential longevity but I'm very happy with the performance. Current uptime is 47 days, I think that's how long ago I bought my UPS and turned the router off to hook it up. Definitely blows away the technicolor freebie I had and matches the Asus that was my previous best experience (didn't do VDSL though). I picked this one for the best price vs features option, occurs to me I've been a bit stingy with network hardware, spend a fortune on PC's but not routers. If/when I go for fibre though I'm pretty tempted to get something that'll run gargoyle. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1412013 | 2015-12-06 18:38:00 | Better than the freebies, but I still managed to make the W9980 fall over after about an hour. Definitely go something that runs Gargoyle, for UFB :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1412014 | 2015-12-06 20:40:00 | Maybe the secret to my stability with cheap routers is the cooler I made a few years back, I tend to forget about it but it makes a very noticeable effect to temperature. I used a 12V power supply from a previous dead router and made a wooden base to sit the router on with an 8cm case fan and grill blowing air up onto the bottom and 2 small rails to keep a small air gap underneath. One of these days I plan to redo it a bit better and use a 12CM fan, the design was inspired by laptop coolers. When I turn it off the router gets warm to the touch but normally isn't. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1412015 | 2015-12-06 20:55:00 | I'm yet to find an all-in-one that's VDSL and Dual-band WiFi that I'm moderately impressed with. Tried the Asus DSL-AC68U? They're solid and fast in my experience. |
inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1412016 | 2015-12-07 01:26:00 | Maybe the secret to my stability with cheap routers is the cooler I made a few years back, I tend to forget about it but it makes a very noticeable effect to temperature. I used a 12V power supply from a previous dead router and made a wooden base to sit the router on with an 8cm case fan and grill blowing air up onto the bottom and 2 small rails to keep a small air gap underneath. One of these days I plan to redo it a bit better and use a 12CM fan, the design was inspired by laptop coolers. When I turn it off the router gets warm to the touch but normally isn't. 100% There's two routers that use identical hardware, I think it's a Netcomm NF8AC and another Innbox V51 router, I forget the exact model specifics. Anyways basically the Netcomm is fully enclosed and the Innbox router has a metric %@#$load of holes in the case. Better ventilation = lower temperature = more reliable. I tested both over the course of 2-3 days. The Netcomm would die significantly faster on my network vs the V51. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1412017 | 2015-12-07 01:28:00 | Tried the Asus DSL-AC68U? They're solid and fast in my experience. I can't say I have. I stopped with the Asus models about 24 months ago after their GUI started going crazy. Some of their old stuff was semi-decent but ran into two models that gave me grief and I couldn't be bothered ... That, and $400 for a router!?! No thankyou :( |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1412018 | 2015-12-10 20:10:00 | Seeing as the Chorus brownout starts next Friday, and this is supposedly being finished in December, I'm guessing they must almost be completely finished. Free speed, what's there not to love? :D |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1412019 | 2015-12-10 21:43:00 | There is a lesser work restriction starting monday so maybe they are already finished. Nothing actually stopping them continuing if they want to though, it's a simple software change and doesn't seem to be causing any disruptions. I basically have to take the brownout period off on leave because most of the work I do for them stops so I'm rather fond of it :) (No I'm not employed by Chorus, but my company does contract to them) |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1412020 | 2015-12-22 19:59:00 | Well sometime in the last 5 days our connection has gone from 30/10 to 44/8 Still on the 8B profile. |
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