Recommended router

I am thinking of moving to Zen 8000 Lite; it pains me to spell light as lite:-(

I no longer up/down load large amounts so the 2GB limited plus purchase of additional amount if usage requires will suffice. The "upgrade" to Max 8000 may help but the BT checker says no more than 3.5Mbs; longish line.

I have been wth BT since the start of broadband; I have an Engineer's Install. My router is a Draytek USB 2000 with a firewall. I also have a Netgear WAP

I am looking for a router with a firewall, without wireless but ,with an eye to the future, with VOIP.

Any recommendations please

If you're looking for VoIP I would recommend the SpeedTouch 780WL, however it is wireless

Hi

We generally recommend Speedtouch routers, as these are what have performed well during testing. The router we sell with VOIP facilities is the 780WL, more information is available here: http://www.zen.co.uk/Broadband/buyhardware.aspx?page=451

Hope that helps

I will thrice recommend this router.

Thank you for your reply.

I looked at the online pdf for the 780W but could not see instructions on how to wire to my master socket but this basic does not seem to be shown. There is a getting to know your Speedtouch but this point is not covered there. This maybe in the Quick Installation guide that comes with the device?

My current setup only needs a normal telephone feed to my green frog "modem". The USB from the frog then goes into my Draytek and my Draytek ethernet ports feed my computers/hubs/WAP. Browsing for 192.168.1.1 brings up the Draytek settings.

I assume that the Speedtouch will require a microfilter on my master socket. One side of which will go to my telephone and the other to the white DSL socket on the rear of the Speedtouch. I can then use the 4 ethernet ports to feed my computers/hubs/WAP? Browsing 192.168.1.254 will bring up setings?

To use a router then plugging it in isn't too much different to your current setup.

Your RJ11 phone cable that you currently plug in the master socket to your 'Frog' modem will plug into the "line" or "phone" socket on the new router.

The difference is how it connects to your computer!

Instead of using a USB cable for the data transfer, a new cable which is usually supplied with most routers is used. That is a "RJ45" cable which will plug into one of the outputs (Port) on the rear of the router, the other end will plug into either an inbulit motherboard based NIC (Network Interface Card) if your motherboard has one (usually near to the USB ports), or into a seperate NIC PCI Addon board which are available at any good PC shop / online store.

If you are wanting to use wireless then instead of using the supplied RJ45 cable you would need to use a Wireless PCI addon card to "talk" to the router.

Hope that helps a bit

I think it will connect to my computer the same way as present. The frog USB only connects to my Draytek router. The Draytek ethernet ports connect to my computer and hub and WAP; hub and WAP needed for other wired and wireless computers.

However do you mean that I will not need a microfilter and will not connect the internet output from that to the DSL socket on the 780? Just take a connection from my second phone socket and plug that into the black PSTN socket on the 780?

No - it will connect in the same way as your frog. Just imagine you have a frog inside your new router.

BT socket - Microfilter - Router

Instead of:

BT socket - Microfilter - Frog - Router.

If you have an engineer install then you should have a faceplate on your socket with separate ADSL and phone sockets. If this is the case your new router plugs into the ADSL socket WITHOUT a filter.

If you try to put a filter into the other side and run the router off that, you won't get a signal as this side is filtered.

"No - it will connect in the same way as your frog. Just imagine you have a frog inside your new router" That's what I thought.

"If you have an engineer install then you should have a faceplate on your socket with separate ADSL and phone sockets. If this is the case your new router plugs into the ADSL socket WITHOUT a filter."

I understand