Technicolor (Thomson) TG582n - Broadcom/IPv6/Cheap!

This looks like an interesting router!

The Technicolor (Thomson) TG582n Website

It was mentioned earlier this week in this TBB News Item.
AAISP have just announced they are adopting it as their IPv6 router for home use.

I see ZEN also supply them to their customers - not sure how much IPv6 research they have done though.

On Amazon they can be had for a very reasonable £37.50.

Looking around, some people are saying they have a Broadcom chipset (my favourite!) but I see some conflicting reports.
ADSL24's shop listing says it uses an Infineon chipset for example - and they are normally pretty good on listing the correct chipsets (I've bought v4 (Broadcom) Netgears from them in the past).

Does anyone with better knowledge of this router know for sure which chipset they use - or are there different models available?

Initially I thought AAISP had found a new router - but it seems it's been around for a while now.
Perhaps this will give the Billion's a run for their money!

NB. @Freeola - I'm happy to trial one for you on your Entanet IPv6 ADSL - just pop one in the post

In reply to a post by b4dger:

Does anyone with better knowledge of this router know for sure which chipset they use - or are there different models available?

Broadcom.


Initially I thought AAISP had found a new router - but it seems it's been around for a while now.
Perhaps this will give the Billion's a run for their money!


It's a great little router. We've been shipping them for a few months. Not sure they'd surpass the 7800N and SNR might still be locked (although, not tried on the 582n yet).

Matt

Thanks for that.

I think you're right about not being able to Tweak.

Are you using them on IPv6 connections?

Be now use theses also.

In reply to a post by epyon:

Be now use theses also.

Not tweak able= not good then i bet they are still slow at responding to imcp requests,and have the built backdoor for isp access, not to mention being a nightmare to configure ie port forwarding, as they (Thompson/ Technicolor ) set to use upnp as a default i don't use dhcp upnp or even wireless , but i would sooner use the billion over a slooow Thompson any day then there is support from Technicolor i know billion offer good support

Good thing i use billion then

I went off Technicolor/Thomson when they disabled tweaking. I'm still using a 546v6 on the last firmware that was tweakable, going to see how it performs on ADSL2+ on a new ISP. Trouble is the Billions are so expensive, I got the 546 for a fiver.

In reply to a post by Banger:

I went off Technicolor/Thomson when they disabled tweaking. I'm still using a 546v6 on the last firmware that was tweakable, going to see how it performs on ADSL2+ on a new ISP. Trouble is the Billions are so expensive, I got the 546 for a fiver.

probably all it's worth,lol but if it does what you need it to do then it don't really matter, you can get the wired version of the billion 7800, for a cheaper price,and i think it will be IPV6 compatible by now, as i was told be billion support that they indeed intended to do so ,once they had implemented it & it was working ok with the N version ,that was several months ago

Beware of jumping early for a Thomson product - they have a history of dropping full support for the current model as soon as a new version comes out, even if it is still within its warranty period.

JPL

I'm using an ancient Thomson 585v6 which is doing fine.

This thread is discussing a £37 router - so for most this won't be too much of an issue