Good ADSL Router? Do they exist?!

[Gr44]

Ahhh, didn't spot that one!

The only thing with that router is it's a hard plastic mould and given my past experiance I'd bet it suffers from over-heating and would die after 1-2 years!

The 2800's look a little more solid in their build.

That 2700 is certainly a big more reasonable on the pocket though and I'm not missing any features from the 28xx's... hmm!!

[Gr44]

lol gss03, posted at the same time!

Yeah I did notice that, not bothered about the 3g connection, the USB port would be handy for something but not too fussed, already have numerous places to store things anyway!

[gss03]

I've only installed and used 1 draytek 2710 router, but for being a cutdown router it doesn't have a Mickey Mouse interface to manage it. Was quite impressed for the £££ spent on it
*And* i've got it connected back to a main office network (main office using a Draytek 2950) using IPSEC :-) - well chuffed that the 2710 can do this!

[abaxas]

In terms of Cisco

837 - ADSL 1 only
857/877 - ADSL 2

What provider fo you use? And if you go cisco I'll send over nice working config and a bit exp on how to do port forwarding etc.

[Gr44]

Oh so the 837 would be no good then?

I'm on BE and get around 15Mbps down... i forget what up... about 4Mbps up I think.

Would you rate these over the Draytek ones (if you have experiance of both!)

[oolon]

I would say the best router is a computer running openbsd (if thats too hardcore use pfsense) coupled with a Draytek Vigor 120. I have tried may "routers", and have always been disappointed, as soon as I wanted more than use a default, I would discover issues with the router, and companies seem to care more about the branding for the router than actually improving what it does. A nice atom computer either in a router on a stick mode (the way I do it). Or with an additional network card, makes for the best router long term.

[abaxas]

I cant comment on Draytek, but always hear good things.

Here is some info from my router... 877W

cisco877 uptime is 7 weeks, 6 days, 18 hours, 24 minutes
System returned to ROM by power-on
System restarted at 17:51:42 GMT Mon Oct 26 2009
System image file is "flash:c870-advipservicesk9-mz.124-24.T1.bin"

I moved it about 2 months ago to a different telephone socket. Hence the downtime.

[0iD]

Netgear Rangemax DG834PN was what I had before BT Vision, couldn't fault it tbh.

[peterb]

Ahhh, didn't spot that one!

The only thing with that router is it's a hard plastic mould and given my past experiance I'd bet it suffers from over-heating and would die after 1-2 years!

The 2800's look a little more solid in their build.

That 2700 is certainly a big more reasonable on the pocket though and I'm not missing any features from the 28xx's... hmm!!

I have used a 2800 (2820/2710 predecessor) for about 4 years without any overheating problems. The PSU is an external brick, so most of the PSU components are away from the main unit. I will say that a friend's 2800 died through heat - but that was left in front of a window in Southern France, in direct sunlight - so I guess the temperature was a little high. It still works, but only on one of the ethernet ports - but then if you abuse it to that extent, it isn't really surprising! Mine is wall mounted (in the shade!)

[madman045]

If you keep hacving routers die on you, I would also look at the power source too.

I went from a Netgear DG834 GT (which I now use as just an AP) and now have a Draytek 2820 on Bethere, I get a 16mb sync down and 2.5mb sync up, but I also have them on a APC UPS Extension.

Might be worth investing in something like that.

[Lourdes]

Best I've used is a Sky DG834GT which cost about £15.

[lazimutha]

I have a Buffalo airstation nfiniti. It's been pretty good for the past 6-8 months. The only (and major) problem with it is that it doesn't come with a built in adsl modem. I had assumed they all did and went to HK where they don't need it. Anyway, I've had to make do with another router (3com officeconnect - crap for wireless) to use as the modem. The joys of modern technology.