On 12/10/07, James Pluck <papabearnz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
With the very welcome assistance of Bruce and Lindsay, I now have a fully functional Cisco ADSL router working in my home. My wife is happy again as she can now do an audit on our accounts before Christmas (which has been delayed for the last 3 weeks of instability. As suspected my (only 2 years old) ADSL router is past its best before date! If anyone wants a non-functional Dynalink rta1320 they are more than welcome to have it.
And if anyone can recomment a reasonably priced and reliable ADSL 2+ router I would be very interested in the information.
I would and wouldn't recommend the D-Link range in some cases! They are meant to have good connections at medium to long distances from exchanges according to reviews. I found my connection went up about 1 Mbits/sec (replacing a DSE one) as reasonable distance from exchange. This will become less of an issue as Telecom rolls out fibre to the cabinet. On the other hand their DNS support is rubbish. I've had to hardcode Xnet's DNS on each PC as the DNS proxy is useless. After a battle with DLink they gave me the GPL source code and found it was a broken version of the DNS proxy. I couldn't be bothered fixing it though... Ian