An alternative to the 2700?

[Inactive]

Read this over on DSL Zone, where there is a topic about it, this is taken from a review;

The Billion BiPAC 7300G generally proved more than adequate in use. It's unexceptional (although very much on a par with its rivals), although it did fare better in one particular area – connect speed. For some years now we've relied on a Netgear router here. And despite having an 'up to 8Mbps' connection and being about a mile from our exchange, the router has never managed to connect at more than 5 or 6Mbps.

The Billion BiPAC 7300G had no problem connecting at a respectable 7.6Mbps, which gave us an immediate bandwidth boost of about 25 percent - not bad eh?

Interesting, but unproven.

[Rik]

I've seen good and bad reports of Billion, In, we could certainly use more data on it.

[MoHux]

I've seen good and bad reports of Billion, In, we could certainly use more data on it.

SUE!!

[Sebby]

As you say, In, it's interesting but unproven. I know many here are happy with Netgear, but I've never found them to be good, so I'd imagine that moving to a router with a different chipset like the Billion may, but default, be better for a lot of users. That doesn't mean it's as good as the 2Wire or SpeedTouch 585v6 in terms of connection rate, though.

You could always give it a try and send it back under the Distance Selling Regulations if you weren't happy.

[Rik]

What we need is to do a Which? report for them...

[Inactive]

My theory is, there is no perfect router for every line situation, some appear to suit some lines better than others, but what do I know..

[merlin]

i think you've got it there inactive, as there are so many other variables, its as much to do with "the router suiting the line etc" as anything else.
although its true some are better at "matching the line" than others, for unknown reasons ,the 2700 being an example

[Rik]

You're dead right, Merlin. The Draytek range were considered the Rolls Royce of routers prior to Max, but when I moved to Max, mine just didn't work well with my line. The humble Netgear, otoh, did a pretty good job.

It makes recommending a router a lottery, unfortunately.

[Gary]

Must admit the new V4 netgear DG834G is much more stable with the new chipset than the old ones I have had, so far I'm very happy with it, the stats are more detailed as well giving you noise margins more accurately, I'm at 6304kbs at the moment with snr of 4.7, the v3 could not hold this speed at this time of night, will report back after a week on how it is going 

[Sebby]

It certainly sounds like there's some truth in this whole AR7 chipset issue.

[sobranie]

Must admit the new V4 netgear DG834G is much more stable with the new chipset than the old ones I have had, so far I'm very happy with it, the stats are more detailed as well giving you noise margins more accurately, I'm at 6304kbs at the moment with snr of 4.7, the v3 could not hold this speed at this time of night, will report back after a week on how it is going 

Also considering the v4 after soldiering on with the v2 for around 4years.  prob I have now is the damn thing is dropping synch on a regular basis and has to be switched off for around 30 minutes to re-synch.
I put this down to overheating! When I say 'overheating I mean hot to the touch!! I did suspect that BT were 'playing' at the exchange but after a few visits to the exchange (100 mtrs away) there was no one there.
I presume the v4 is up to the forthcoming BT upgrades??  Anybody else using one ?  I would welcome your comments.
Have also considered the 2700 of course but after reading all the set-up comments I think I would prefer something that actually works out of the box.

[Rik]

To be fair, I found that the 2700 did work out of the box, but I do have the SBC firmware. It might be worth trying an air blaster of your 834, see if you can get any dust out. Also try it in the vertical position.

[sobranie]

Sod it.  Am going for this, can anyone confirm it's the correct one please;

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BT-Business-Wireless-Router-2700-HGV-Gateway-NEW_W0QQitemZ370028835208QQihZ024QQcategoryZ44997QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQ_trksidZp1638.m118.l1247QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting

[Simon]

That looks like one one.  It doesn't actually specify that it's the twin SSID version, but being *new*, it should be. 

[Sebby]

The 2Wire is a great router, and I would think it will improve things for you; we've now seen several cases where we can be virtually certain that it's the AR7 chipset causing issues.

[sobranie]

Thankyou all.