[Hudlug] Telephone exchange for HD5 8XP... (and ADSL)

[Chris Wood]

hudlug-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk wrote:
> Chris Wood wrote:
>> This is really aimed at Ben who was saying last night that he had
>> the full ADSL postcode list that BT use...
>>
>
> You will do a lot better by doing the check on the phone number rather
> than on the postcode.
>

It's the house I'm buying, which is currently empty with the phone
disconnected. Will see if the vendor will tell me, but he's been pretty
useless so far [garage still full to roof with carpet off-cuts despite him
moving several months ago, ugh!]...

> BTW, what is everybodies favourite ADSL router?  At the moment I think
> the Draytek 2600 is the best.  The throughput seems better than the
> alcatel 510 which everybody seems to ship, and it has a decent
> firewall built in and uPNP support, and can work in NAT mode and
> routed mode simultaneously.  I haven't done proper throughput tests
> yet though.
>

I have the 2600. Apart from slightly shonky firmware that it seems to take
ages for Draytek to fix, it *is* the dogs danglies unless of course you are
prepared to fork out for a Cisco one.
Mine runs with the sort of throughput that I'd expect from a 512Kb line.
Note sure what differences you'd expect to see in throughput? A difference
of a Kb or so at line speeds like this isn't going to be noticiable, surely?

C.