Author: Richard Danter Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Wireless Broadband Firewall/Router Recommendations?
2008/9/6 James Ashburner <hantslug@???>: > 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.
Excellent, what kind of throughput are you getting? Does it max out
your broadband doing, say, a large FTP download? What speed is your
broadband?
