In reply to a post by XRaySpeX:

For all you know AC dongle is in post.

Unlikely, they come in the same box with the HH5.

I get better results with an ECI modem on a Huawei cabinet. Now everything is bedded in, I doubt if there is much to be gained from matching cabinet and modem.

There's possibly more variance in the component quality of the electronics of batches of each modem than there is difference in the specification of them.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

There's possibly more variance in the component quality of the electronics of batches of each modem than there is difference in the specification of them.

Component quality will have most effect on things such as termination impedance and the line impedance at diffecerent frequencies and thus attenuation and SNR. It will have little effect on the way the DSLAM and Modem interface.

The implementation of the algorithms in the DSPs is where the initial problems of interfacing a Huawei DSLAM to an ECI modem (and vice versa). Initially, the manufacturers will tweak the firmware at both ends to obtain the best results and only when the competing systems are in the field and their is a chance to get real live data from mixed supplier systems will they start to tweak their firmware to get the best all round performance.

In reply to a post by XRaySpeX:

Do they have that in writing?

Web page was printed I believe, and an order acknowlegement emailed with all the details. I'll find out at the weekend the latest status. (FWIW, you always pay something for the postage, it was around £6 for my HH3 last year.

In reply to a post by MHC:

I get better results with an ECI modem on a Huawei cabinet. Now everything is bedded in, I doubt if there is much to be gained from matching cabinet and modem.

Ah, good to know its a non issue. Thanks.

Come on!

Any circuit board depends on the quality and closeness to spec of every component on it. Given that cheapo-product manufacturers buy in batches of stuff from the lowest priced supplier on the day and chuck them in the parts bin, the product performance is variable.

Take the absolutely simple case of dangly filters. Same make, in the same router outer. Sync speeds of the modem/router consistently different depending on which "identical" filter you use.

That's what I'm talking about. The performance of the individual OR modems of either make will vary considerably. The sync speeds will be consistently different independent of what is in the FTTC cabinet.

I was simply suggesting that those variances will be greater than the difference between the median or mode performance of the two makes. In other words, which OR modem performs best for a given user depends on the modem itself. Not its make.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

In which case chase them.

After chasing, HH5 and AC USB dongle have arrived today, with a pre-paid box to return the HH4.

Here comes 1300Mbps wifi

Theoretical Will be interesting to test the Core i7 PC over the gigE switch to the HH5 when I next get there.

Fairly old PC's can pull GigE over an Ethernet LAN with no great issue, even my little Mac Book Air manages a decent speed.

Switches can make a difference, so some fiddling around to find the best options from your box of backup kit is always worth a go.