In reply to a post by Anonymous:

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

I just asked a person who is extremely knowledgeable about Be and routers used on it, whether they were aware of any problems with the 585v8 on the service. The answer was:-

Has an Infinion chipset, so pretty rubbish on BE / O2 - to be avoided from the 2 people I know who have tried it.

Certainly it has always been understood that a Broadcom chipset is the best for a Be connection, though one poster claims his Conexant one is better.

Broadcom chipped routers are probably the most stable(compatible with BE/O2 LLU line cards) A conexant based router will almost always provide the highest sync rate, but unfortunately , the netgear branded ones are not as resilient in dealing with some types of noise , even when used on a compatible adsl service,


Get yourself a DG834/ (G) V4 the important bit is the bit in bold, as that is the only DG834 Version that has the broadcom BCM6348 V0.7 chip

Or if you are feeling flush go for the Billion 7800 (n)
Both are tweakable, the Netgear tweaks will survive re-boots if you flash with the DGTeam F/W

Forgot to add some of the later DG834 GT 's where also broadcom, but finding a new one now can be difficult and if you do you could end up paying over the odds for it,( the billion would be a better choice,) unless you managed to find a S/H one on Flea bay, but buyer beware on S/H goods

In reply to a post by Anonymous:

Forgot to add some of the later DG834 GT 's were also broadcom,

ALL of the GT's were; SOME applies only to 834G's

Get a new 834GT on eBay for about £20 or even a Sky-locked one which is easily unlockable. Trouble with buying a 834G on eBay is that sellers rarely know or advertise their versions.

In reply to a post by XRaySpeX:

... or even a Sky-locked one which is easily unlockable.

[cough] [splutter]

It was the Sky DG934G (a locked DG834v3) that I had my mishap with , not the DG834GT. That is harder to unlock, but not impossible.

I forgive you then .