new brightbox from orange!

i have been using it for about 6 hours,no disconnection sofar ,crossing fingers!! orange sent that to me after trying out livebox (stable connection but very slow 5meg max) and netgear gn100 ( 11 meg speed but had to be restarted about 12 times a day) anyway

there is an option to change the wireless speed on it to 300 mbp,
do you think i should change the wireless speed to 300 mbps?my computer supports it but some other computers in the house won't ,would that cause any issues with the others computers ? or phones connected to it that dont support it?
if all the devices work on it why don't they just set it up 300mbps straight away?

thanks

Set Wireless Mode to "11b+11g+11n". That will cope with all wireless devices.

There are some interesting observations on the router in the Orange forum here.

i know that it s already on that,but i would like my wireless speed to get quicker that i am asking the questions

regards

So what is the question?

do you think i should change the wireless speed to 300 mbps?my computer supports it but some other computers in the house won't ,would that cause any issues with the others computers ? or phones connected to it that dont support it?

What I mean when won't support is their wireless card isn't 300mps like mine , they probably are 65 mbps

Yes! Change it as I said earlier. That setting is compatible with the slower wireless cards (11g & 11b) as well as the faster ones (11n).

In fact as I remember it, the BrightBox defaulted to that setting and I reduced it to "11b+11g" because I have no 11n devices.

EDIT: Are you trying to say can you make the 56 Meg 11g adapters go faster? No, you can't unless you replace them.

Edited by XRaySpeX (Fri 24-Feb-12 03:19:30)

But why don't they just set it up to 300 straight away then? Do you it'll make a big difference for me speed wise?

I really don't know what you are asking!

They did set it up to 11n (300 Meg) straightaway while still being able to talk to slower 11 b & 11 g cards.

Don't forget that unless you are communicating a lot locally between your PCs, you are limited by the 11 Meg speed of your BB which is shared out between your PCs. So no PC can use wireless faster than 11 Meg when talking to the Internet.

If other devices don't support 300mbps and are connected then the router wont run at 300 if that device is connected at the same time.

Usually if a mix of wireless standards are running this impacts on the faster devices, hence why dual-band (2.4GHz and 5GHz) is popular

But as you pointed out with a broadband speed of 11 Mbps, then only the 802.11b cards will not manage that. Also N wireless is still subject to the speed drop off due to walls/floors

Good evening, experienced Brightbox people. Orange just swapped me a Brightbox for my old (Dead)box, and now I can't get through on the VPN to my workplace network. Orange won't help me, and my workplace technical people won't either, so I'm hoping you can. I can set up the connection OK but after a few seconds the message reads 'No network access', although I'm still Connected. Also, my usual internet connection goes down - but it's back up the moment I Disconnect from the abortive VPN. I've no firewall, so I can't blame that, and should appreciate any helpful suggestions. Regards.

Hi Everyone

I have just switched from a Livebox to a Brightbox and can no longer connect wirlessly to my work's VPN network. It completely knocks out the internet access and I have to switch the Brightbox off and on again. I can connect to VPN with a wired connection ok and I can access the internet wirelessly ok, it is just wirelessly to my office VPN that will not work. Orange can't help and neither can the office IT team.
Any ideas?
I guess worst case I could just go back to using the Livebox.
Thanks in advance

Sarah

Hi Sarah,

Have been having exactly the same problems since Brightbox installation. At least now I think the problem is my end. I know orange doesn't support VPN officially, but never had any issues with the Livebox.
If anyone has any ideas or a work around, would be extremely gratefull

Bill

I have a old Orange DGN1000 router (Came unlocked). So what is the new "brightBox" and what is it like compared to the NG 1000

Same happened to me, no acces to VPN after switch from Livebox to Brightbox. I almost got rid of the Live box the other day, maybe I will just switch back. Orange had promised an imporved speed, but don't think it's made any difference. Please post if you find a solution.