http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=48448
Manufacturer's Page:
http://www.origo2000.com/product/pro...?PAGE=asr-8000
Well, what can I say. Bought this £30 router to replace a £180 Asus AAM6000EV after the port forwarding started playing up, and it was dropping the connection. Now, it is a bit poor as it comes out the box, so get the new firware from:
http://www.wellgroups.com/wellftp/firmware/asr-8400.dlf
Use the firmware upload menu option to upload that firmware, then reset the router. The menu looks a lot different now. All you have to do is type in your ISP username and Password, it sorts out the VCI/VPI and mode settings automatically. There's a more in dept menu for changing passwords (highly recommended, since it's set up as default to allow anyone access to the setup pages, I have changed this to LAN only through a setup menu), and various things like DMZ settings, which didn't exists on my AAM6000EV, and NAT port forwarding.
At the moment it's acting as a DHCP server for my Lan, avoiding my IP address as I want a static one on the network.
It is extremely easy to set up, all you really need to do to get it working fine is type in a username and password for your ISP, but it's worth going into the advanced settings and disabling access to WAN traffic.
This is without a doubt the best router you can find for the money, did I also mention it can be an Ethernet ADSL modem, and a USB ADSL modem (setup like a cable modem, not making a fake dialup connection) and have a PC on the USB connection and one on the ethernet connection at the same time?
The only thing lacking from this is UPnP, but this is such a new and rare technology that it isn't worth bothering about.
Cut a few MS off my ping too, and it also reports line loss in dB as well as identifying the ADSL hardware installed at your exchange.
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