Author: James Ashburner Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Wireless Broadband Firewall/Router Recommendations?
James Ashburner wrote: > Richard Danter wrote:
>> 2008/9/2 James Ashburner <hantslug@???>:
>>> Richard Danter wrote:
>>> I can certainly let you know in a few days when it's arrived and I've
>>> had a chance to test it.
>> Thanks, that would be great.
>>
>> Rich
>>
>
> Router arrived yesterday and took about 15mins to set up including
> securing the wireless and setting port forwarding/port triggering rules.
>
> The coverage is excellent, the one room in the house that didn't get a
> decent signal now receives full strength wireless, so I'm pretty happy
> with it.
>
> The firmware seems a bit buggy, I can't change certain options because
> it tells me the format of their defaults is invalid. MAC address
> filtering is a good example, they have all the boxes filled in with
> 00:00:00:00:00:00. I went looking for newer firmware only to find I was
> already one version ahead of the latest.
>
> I spoke to one of their customer support guys who has emailed me a much
> newer firmware, I don't know why it's not available on the website, but
> I'll give that a try tonight and let you know if it resolves the issues.
>
> James
>
Well, the firmware update seems to have fixed all the issues I had with
the router so at a whole £26 I'm very pleased with it. I don't know why
the firmware's not available on the site, but if you decide to buy the
router I'll email it to you.
