Hi meditator.

Well, I've e-mailed a tech support query to Speedtouch UK this morning via their website and will see what transpires.

Yes, hopefully a firmware fix may cure it.

In the meantime, it'd be really helpful if anyone else out there who has a v6 546 could reply here and test the same info screen to confirm that it's not just a problem that myself and TMA have, in case Speedtouch decide to fob us off with excuses.

So, please let us know.

TIA

Edited by BlobbyBlobby (Mon 16-Oct-06 13:30:45)

Had that problem with my 516v6 since day one and in every firmware version, the CPU stats don't do anything either, always on 0%. Knowing Speedtouch's attitude to this kind of thing I seriously doubt they'll fix it, they treat their customers with contempt like most companies these days.

Thanks ZeroFlux.

That pretty well nails it then.

The mothers at Speedtouch still haven't even had the decency to acknowledge my query from Monday either!

Wasters...

I was half tempted to get a full refund, but TBH am finding ADSL2+ much more reliable than the old ADSL1 from the 510v4.

Why not send it back and get a 546 V5 ? That works.

Apparently the chipset on the v5 gets really hot from reports I've heard?

The v6 gets 'warm-very warm'. Perhaps that's one reason for the change in versions?

When you can't get any response from the wasters at Speedtouch it's hard to work out just what's true and what's not!

Can't say I've noticed my 546 V5's getting really hot. Warm ? Possibly. But certainly not as warm as some modem/routers I've used in the past. Mine are on 24/7 - no problems so far. I have an SMC router here that you can fry eggs on - still works OK, though

P.S. The main reason for the change was that the V6 is RoHS compliant (no lead in the construction).

Edited by deleted (Thu 19-Oct-06 17:33:55)

Ok, thanks zebedeee.

Not sure what to do now then really TBH!

I suppose it all depends how important the stats are to you. I bought the 546 because it works well, and because you can use it with DMT to monitor and tweak the performance. The V5 does this equally as well as the V6, so I'm happy. As an engineer, I've been handling solder containing lead for more than 40 years, so the RoHS compliance doesn't bother me.

I too had reservations about the thermal performances of both the 546v5 and 546v6. Being a retired electronics engineer, I'm very fussy about such things. Regular contributors to these Speedtouch forums will know that I sought opinions on the thermal performance of the 546v5 in particular, over several months.

In the end, I took a chance and bought the 546v5 and, frankly, I don't know what all the fuss was about! Despite it having a higher input supply voltage and higher current rating than most other comparable routers, it runs only mildly warm. In my view, it doesn't warrant any additional ventilation of the case and, in fact, runs no warmer than my previous Billion router of similar physical size.

So, Blobby, don't be over-concerned about the 546v5 running warm. By all accounts, anyway, it'll run more coolly than the v6 and is, at this stage, an altogether more stable router. Get your existing router exchanged, if you possibly can. Go on, go for it!

I've found exactly the same disparity with the Netgear DG834 - some people said that it gets very hot, whereas the one I used was barely warm. I came to the (guessed) conclusion that wireless routers generate much more heat than wired ones, and it's wireless ones which get hot.

Eric