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tomcat:
--- Quote from: "Evilgoat" ---Brother has been through 4 in a year, the 2-wire things arent much better either.
Get a decent firewall package and an adsl modem, eg Smoothwall Express and a Linksys ADSL2MUE or just throw the lot and gte a proper router thats not horrifically cost reduced.
BT Homehub is a horrible bit of kit, plasticy, skimped on a lot of the components, poor filtering, not enough memory to work and its a bodged/hacked Linux install thats relaly not too stable. There are also security issues with a LOT of the OEM modems, especially BE and Orange units.
The 2-Wire things dont work with a lot of wireless kit and are unreliable too.
The BT Voyager unit is a bit bit better.
Linksys kit seems to be pretty bombproof, as do the netgear units. Have one here used as a wireless access point with no issues.
Wannado wedge seems to work ok, better with a firmware upgrade and unlocked.
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er how do you know all of this do you work for which mag? had a belkin router not to good allways haing to reboot have now got bt home hub running ok not had to reboot at all in 9 months :D
Evilgoat:
--- Quote from: "tomcat" ---
--- Quote from: "Evilgoat" ---Brother has been through 4 in a year, the 2-wire things arent much better either.
Get a decent firewall package and an adsl modem, eg Smoothwall Express and a Linksys ADSL2MUE or just throw the lot and gte a proper router thats not horrifically cost reduced.
BT Homehub is a horrible bit of kit, plasticy, skimped on a lot of the components, poor filtering, not enough memory to work and its a bodged/hacked Linux install thats relaly not too stable. There are also security issues with a LOT of the OEM modems, especially BE and Orange units.
The 2-Wire things dont work with a lot of wireless kit and are unreliable too.
The BT Voyager unit is a bit bit better.
Linksys kit seems to be pretty bombproof, as do the netgear units. Have one here used as a wireless access point with no issues.
Wannado wedge seems to work ok, better with a firmware upgrade and unlocked.
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er how do you know all of this do you work for which mag? had a belkin router not to good allways haing to reboot have now got bt home hub running ok not had to reboot at all in 9 months :D
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Work for a internet security firm :)
Belkin needs heatsinks added to the regulators OR take the top off, srill it and fit a PC case fan. Also if it sthe model I think it is, latest firmware fixes this issue. I went through 4 NTL boxes before I twigged it was the router.
Deal with a lot of people suffering at the hands of these boxes so we have a good list of whats good and what to give up on.
For example, if you are setting up VPNs, dont go near Linksys or Netgear, especially the latter.
While most Alcatel stuff sucks, the Speedtouch 610 rocks
Struggling with a Speedtouch modem, user a Sagem F@st 800
Wireless:
--- Quote from: "Sheddy" ---I've just used the BT hub as ballast in my boat. I've replaced it with a layer2 managed POE switch running dual dlink G604t's to provide access solutions running data and VoIP over a single cat5 install.
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Why two G604T's? Doesn't the G604T support virtual server mapping, which would allow data and VOIP service solutions using a single G604T over one WAN link?
Maybe you have built some redundancy in the set-up for resilience purposes, but this doesn't explain why you only have a single Layer 2 switch and single CAT-5 connection. This would seem to counter the hardware redundancy.
Unless the solution was designed only for access bandwidth, and not resilience.
Forgive me if I'm barking up the wrong tree.
Yoshi:
--- Quote from: "Evilgoat" ---Brother has been through 4 in a year, the 2-wire things arent much better either.
Get a decent firewall package and an adsl modem, eg Smoothwall Express and a Linksys ADSL2MUE or just throw the lot and gte a proper router thats not horrifically cost reduced.
BT Homehub is a horrible bit of kit, plasticy, skimped on a lot of the components, poor filtering, not enough memory to work and its a bodged/hacked Linux install thats relaly not too stable. There are also security issues with a LOT of the OEM modems, especially BE and Orange units.
The 2-Wire things dont work with a lot of wireless kit and are unreliable too.
The BT Voyager unit is a bit bit better.
Linksys kit seems to be pretty bombproof, as do the netgear units. Have one here used as a wireless access point with no issues.
Wannado wedge seems to work ok, better with a firmware upgrade and unlocked.
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The wanadoo wedge, the orange units and the bt homehubs are all Inventel and all basically the same stuff in different shells.
Evilgoat:
--- Quote from: "BadgersRover" ---
The wanadoo wedge, the orange units and the bt homehubs are all Inventel and all basically the same stuff in different shells.
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Wrong
Homehub is an Alcatel unit, Orange and Wannado are Inventel.
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