I am tempted by FTTC.. why would I want IDNet over BT ?

Rik · Oct 03, 2010, 12:47:15

AAMOI, Griff, which router would you recommend?

.Griff. · Oct 03, 2010, 12:59:27

Quote from: Rik on Oct 03, 2010, 12:47:15
AAMOI, Griff, which router would you recommend?

Personally I'm going to get either a D-Link DIR-655 or DIR-855 depending on funds.

Rik · Oct 03, 2010, 13:02:16

Thanks for that, Griff. User review in due course?

.Griff. · Oct 03, 2010, 13:04:52

Quote from: Rik on Oct 03, 2010, 13:02:16
Thanks for that, Griff. User review in due course?

Yup will do. Might be a week or so as the 855 is on the expensive side and I need to save the pennies first

Rik · Oct 03, 2010, 13:05:37

No rush, it's just a case of gathering as much user experience as we can.

.Griff. · Oct 03, 2010, 15:53:50

Decided against the D-Link.. At £150 it's too expensive so I've gone for this instead - http://www.linksysbycisco.com/UK/en/products/WRT320N

sof2er · Oct 03, 2010, 17:00:47

My experience of the WGR614 router is bad, it won't let me download faster than 31-32 mbps and has packet loss at random times. Plugging directly into the modem with PPPoE connection I don't have any of that and full speed.

Rik · Oct 03, 2010, 17:37:36

Quote from: .Griff. on Oct 03, 2010, 15:53:50
Decided against the D-Link.. At £150 it's too expensive so I've gone for this instead - http://www.linksysbycisco.com/UK/en/products/WRT320N

bindeweede · Oct 04, 2010, 13:03:27

Well, it looks like the router issue is irrelevant in my case. I spoke to IDNET a little while ago and was told that if I migrated to IDNET and placed a order for the FTTC connection, BT would simply cancel the order when they checked my line and found it could only support up to12 MBps - there would be too many problems, apparently.

Oh well, the dream was nice while it lasted.

sof2er · Oct 04, 2010, 13:09:41

Quote from: bindeweede on Oct 04, 2010, 13:03:27
Well, it looks like the router issue is irrelevant in my case. I spoke to IDNET a little while ago and was told that if I migrated to IDNET and placed a order for the FTTC connection, BT would simply cancel the order when they checked my line and found it could only support up to12 MBps - there would be too many problems, apparently.

Oh well, the dream was nice while it lasted.

Now that is something I don't really get because those estimates are always wrong, in reality you should be able to get way more...unless they calculated the distance from your house to the cabinet which was more than 1 mile or something.

If IDNET doesn't work for you then try AAISP (they're alot more expensive) but I'm sure they'll get BT to try it out..