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In reply to a post by BatBoy:

And it's cheaper.

That's not a reason, lol. Cheaper != better.

It is a deciding factor if you're on a budget. That one you sold for £25, you could of bought 5 Ciscos meaning the Cisco is 5 times better.

My linksys WAG54GS (which now resides at a friends house) would run rings round the brightbox. The web config is easy to navigate and it does exactly what you tell it to. If you set up port forwarding, it forwards ports. The wireless is highly stable with very low latency.

Unfortunately the same cannot be said for Orange or BT supplied equipment.

If it's not the orange brightbox and it's useless DHCP, or their older version, which disregards if you turn wireless pairing off and still requires you to press the button, it's the BT home hub which blocks pings and doesn't forward ports correctly.

Edited by Pipexer (Tue 21-Feb-12 21:01:34)

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

In reply to a post by glossywhite:

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

And it's cheaper.

That's not a reason, lol. Cheaper != better.

It is a deciding factor if you're on a budget. That one you sold for £25, you could of bought 5 Ciscos meaning the Cisco is 5 times better.

Are five Asda value Cola bottles @ 20p each, "better" than ONE Coca Cola bottle @ £1?

haha.

In reply to a post by Pipexer:

My linksys WAG54GS (which now resides at a friends house) would run rings round the brightbox. The web config is easy to navigate and it does exactly what you tell it to. If you set up port forwarding, it forwards ports. The wireless is highly stable with very low latency.

Unfortunately the same cannot be said for Orange or BT supplied equipment.

If it's not the orange brightbox and it's useless DHCP, or their older version, which disregards if you turn wireless pairing off and still requires you to press the button, it's the BT home hub which blocks pings and doesn't forward ports correctly.

You take issue with the way that the Bright Box deals with DHCP; fair enough. That doesn't make it bad *overall*. That's plainly ridiculous, and your points are reducing themselves into absurdity. It's still brand new, and a brand new firmware WILL contain more bugs than a mature one. Your point re. DHCP is perhaps a valid one, but your speculation that the Bright Box is in some way worse, is unprovable. Too many variables and besides... who actually cares?

Fanboyism doesn't make sense. It never has, it never will, it never COULD.

Edited by glossywhite (Tue 21-Feb-12 21:14:29)

Mate, if I'm thirsty and I've only got 20p then I'll go for the Asda Cola.

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Mate, if I'm thirsty and I've only got 20p then I'll go for the Asda Cola.

Okay, go for the Asda cola

Cool.

As thread was going nowhere other than an argument