Although maybe a little OT, do you know of any Billions that have the same chipset and control but without the price tag?

I.e just a standard ADSL2+ router with no backup WAN options.

Matt

In reply to a post by uno:

Although maybe a little OT, do you know of any Billions that have the same chipset and control but without the price tag?

I.e just a standard ADSL2+ router with no backup WAN options.

Matt

The Billion 7700N is a budget version of the 7800N (should cost around £50-£60) and should be released soon in the UK. It uses the same chipset Broadcom 6358 but comes without EWAN and without gigabit ports (just has 4 x 100mbps LAN ports)
http://www.billion.uk.com/product/wireless/7700n.htm

Cheers for the tip. I'll keep my eye out.

The cheaper one might sit a little better with users that need something to tweak but don't want to spend too much.

Matt

Cheers for the info Mr Frogmella.

Looks like it could be available here next month and probably elsewhere too

Thanks for that link - it sounds like it might be a useful router

It's also nice to see a manufacturer that actually names the chipset rather than people having to rely on other people's investigations. I guess Netgear don't name the chipset as they use a different one every other week!

Just to add a further reply.

Got this delivered today and yes, very ugly which is a shame but seems to work very well. More testing to be done but the 2820n is taking a back seat now.

Matt

I got mine about a month ago. No major complaints so far.

Mine is hidden under the desk, out of normal sight, so it's
looks are no issue at all.

One minor complaint is, that it does not report errors for ADSL2+,
but I can live with that, for the time being.

The most useful feature, for me, has been the ability of the
SNR Margin tweaking to survive a reboot. Using that facility,
I have pushed my profile up from 6500 to over 7000, with no
attendant problems.

- Alex

I think it does report errors.. but can only find them via SNMP.

Have created some nice graphs as I had with the Vigor, just need to create a template for them.

Matt

In reply to a post by RSTSGeek:

The most useful feature, for me, has been the ability of the
SNR Margin tweaking to survive a reboot. Using that facility,
I have pushed my profile up from 6500 to over 7000, with no
attendant problems.

- Alex

Even better, if you save your configuration settings under Advanced>Configuration>System>Backup/Restore>Backup it even saves your tweaked SNR margin in the backup file! So no need to faff around with the SNR values once you upgrade your firmware....just reload that backup file and bobs yer uncle

Edited by baby_frogmella (Tue 19-Apr-11 20:09:49)