Whilst I've generally found Ubiquity products to be excellent, I shied away from their routers and switches as they had a known problem with buffers filling and slowing networks down on some of their early tough switches so I avoided them. Not sure if they are still affected or not.

Not had any problems with my ER-Lite...

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The lack of support from Draytek from this after providing loads of evidence gave us the final push to no longer recommend them to clients after 10 years of flying the flag for them.

Out of curiosity which do you now recommend? I was thinking of going back to Draytek after using a Zyxel for some time.

Good Evening,

Of course it depends on needs, but can't believe i'm going to say this, but TP-Link (god I feel a headache coming on) is what we are getting the most reliable results from and they have quite an extensive range of products these days.

Martin: thanks for your response by the way. It has helped get the speed up a fair bit. I had to tweak your instructions a little bit, for instance I had to disable QoS (after setting the speeds). It also seems like I have to have the default firewall entries turned on (I had turned everything off in the firewall section before) otherwise it goes slow again. Either way, it still isn't as fast as the TP-Link, but it is getting near (65ish, sometimes bursting to 70... TP-Link was stable at 75).

The software just seems flaky as hell to be honest (on the Draytek), which is a shame.

You're welcome and I'm glad my guide has got you towards at least some reasonable speeds, but as you have found, too much farting about with Draytek.

However, yup, I don't think they have made a product as good as the 2600, since then it's been going downhill.

The final nail in the coffin as far as Draytek goes for me was the discovery that even if you set the LAN side to a /23 or /22, the DHCP server still only serves 255 addresses (well, 253) and it can't be increased.

For something that pretends to be better than a plain basic consumer device, that's utterly unconscionable.

Oh, and the web config login page presenting on the WAN side and permitting valid username/password enumeration even if "disabled".

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However, yup, I don't think they have made a product as good as the 2600, since then it's been going downhill.

Must admit I started with a 2600 which was very good and then went with a 2800 which was OK but not brilliant. After that I used Zyxel since their support was exrtremely good at the time, but that went downhill, probably not so much if you were a large enterprise customer.

Since then I've been looking at going back to Draytek, but I must admit your reference to T-P Link made me laugh. I will check their kit though as they do seem to be getting a decent rep.