Sync and new 2V modems

Just going to throw this out there for discussion.

I lent a friend of mine my spare BT 2V modem to see if it increased his sync speed.

He's been on FTTC since last year, about 400 to 500m from the cab with an IP profile of about 33000 or so.

Everything seemed the same after connecting up the new modem but suddenly after almost 2 weeks he ran the BT speedtest, now his IP profile is 38717 / 10000!

I'm not drawing any conclusions but the facts are interesting.

What is the "new 2V" modem? Is that the new version of the Huawei, with the "2B" sticker (and that has less overheating problem) that has been mentioned on here?

Or is this some other beast?

I've not seen a 2B or any pics of one. The 2V is meant to fix the overheating and comes with newer firmware.

http://stuff.futile.net/fttc/modem.jpg

Just checked mine and it's a 2B.

The engineer did say it was "the newer model as older one's suffered from overheating"

Pic of the 2B one please

In reply to a post by Adsl24:

Pic of the 2B one please

Will upload it later ... but it looks like the 2V posted but with a "B" instead

What's so special about it?

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...and comes with newer firmware

Not if your pic is accurate - yours says "Firmware Version: V100R001C01B028SP10" which is exactly what I have on the "original" HG612 that I've had from April.

Edit: Of course that assumes that the label on the back has some bearing with what's actually on the thing

Edited by mr_bean (Fri 02-Sep-11 20:00:20)

There's an SP08 firmware out there on older models.

There's an SP08 firmware out there on older models.

Ah, OK.

The updated firmware can obviously be had without having a "2B/V" modem - I wonder whether that helped the overheating issue as I've never had problems with mine.

In reply to a post by Adsl24:

Pic of the 2B one please

2B Modem pic

Flickr - 2B Modem