In reply to a post by wolvesmad:

I've tried looking on google to find out what my exchange chipset is. It has recently been upgraded to 21CN and I moved over to this service.

My router is a DGN2000

What's the chipset likely to be??

My 2Wire 2700HGV router indicates Huawei MSAN (Multi-Service Access Node) using Infineon chipset.

From 2Wire 2700HGV router: DSLAM Vendor Information: Country: {0xB5} Vendor: {IFTN} Specific: {0xBE71}

21CN introduced the concept of the Multi-Service Access Node (MSAN)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_21CN

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSAN

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infineon_Technologies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei

My Draytek Vigor 120 which runs which matches my exchange Infinon chipset, shows 3dB lower SNR and a higher exchange connection than anything else I use, which includes my Billion 7800N and Fritzbix 7930.

You can find out the vendor using that router since I've done it myself.

Activate debugging on the router via this link:

http://192.168.0.1/setup.cgi?todo=debug

Then start 'Command Promt' and type:

telnet 192.168.0.1

If Windows doesn't recognise Telnet as a valid command you may need to activate the Telnet Client through Windows Features.

Once you are in enter your username and password and enter the following line:

adslctl info --vendor

I believe that's the one, it should come back with a four character string for the vendor.

IFTN = Infineon
TSTC = Texas Instruments

Not sure about other ones.

In reply to a post by Toonshorty:

IFTN = Infineon
TSTC = Texas Instruments Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company

Fixed that for you

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

In reply to a post by Toonshorty:

IFTN = Infineon
TSTC = Texas Instruments Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company

Fixed that for you

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company = TSMC shirley?

Chip

They bought TSTC. Anyway, Amkor bought TSMC so TSTC = Amkor now

It does not give the details :-

Login: admin
Password:


BusyBox v1.16.1 (2010-05-16 23:02:38 CEST) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

# adslctl info --vendor
adslctl: ADSL driver and PHY status
Status: ShowtimeRetrain Reason: 8000
Channel: FAST, Upstream rate = 1048 Kbps, Downstream rate = 6201 Kbps
ChipSet Vendor Id:
ChipSet VersionNumber:
ChipSet SerialNumber:
#

Do adslctl info --stats and see if that is more useful.

Or adslctl info --show

Do it really make that much difference? i tried different routers with different chipsets when I was on ADSL and I found the best one that worked was a different chipset that was at the exchange.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

Do it really make that much difference? i tried different routers with different chipsets when I was on ADSL and I found the best one that worked was a different chipset that was at the exchange.

I agree I think you will get the best experience from the better built router, especially ones with processors that can handle lots of data.

Broadcom based routers seem to always do well but it may be due to Broadcom have better quality chipsets.