[Gllug] ADSL Routers

[Peter Childs]

Chris Bell wrote:

>On Mon 23 May, Peter Childs wrote:
>  
>
>>    Can anyone give me a quick recomndation on a ADSL router that works 
>>at 2Mbs as our Router (a Netgear DM602) has just decided to lose packets 
>>if its run at 2Mbs it was fine at 0.5Mbs.
>>     Or can they tell me why the firmware will not download to a 
>>Speedtouch 330.
>>    It just loses about 5% of packets.
>>
>>Peter Childs
>>    
>>
>
>   I have just set up a Speedtouch 330 issue 4 with a box running the latest
>IPCop. The IPCop administration instructions were to download the driver to
>(the home directory of) your PC, then upload it to the IPCop box. The upload
>is done by logging on to its web page from your home directory and
>instructing the box to collect it. The driver name for issues 1-3 was shown
>in the box to be uploaded, despite the fact that it was an issue 4 and
>required the later driver. When the correct (later) driver was uploaded the
>name shown was still that of the earlier driver, but it did all work.
>
>   Your packet loss could be a result of collisions within your network
>causing the interfaces to back off. It may help if you use a faster network
>switch, perhaps even a more expensive 10/100/1000 switch. Some boxes are
>advertised as store-and-forward switches, but I am not convinced that they
>are all as fast as you would expect.
>
>
>  
>
    Our Broadband improved for seaming no reason what so ever so problem 
over the old Netgear was not at fault it must have been BT but we will 
never know

Peter Childs
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