I have been having quite a lot of problems with CRCs and ESs on my line but I did not think that changing the outer behind the HG612 would make that sort of difference.
How can a router
behind the HG612 cause the HG612 to report more CRCs and E/S? It's still the HG612 that is performing handling of the line because that's what contains the modem. The only possible thing I can think of is that the PSU is faulty and generating noise, but even then you'd expect it to be continuous and not spikey.
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I may sound defensive of the Zyxel, and I appreciate that it didnt perform as well on les's line... and a handful of users such as chrys did see slighly more errors and eric saw more, but his line was performing oddly anyhow prior to that.
The fact is that the Zyxel does perform better on many lines, even noisy ones such as Ronski's.. and on my own line it performs much better than the HG612.
I fully appreciate that there are differences between the 6368 and 63168 based routers, but that does appear to be down to the chipset. As I keep saying it all depends on the type of noise your line experiences and we still dont know how g.inp fits in there. At the end of the day it's always been that some chipsets work better on some lines than on others and I still feel that the BCMs be they 6368 or 63168 perform better than some of the other chipsets. Even then you get the odd line thrown into the mix that may perform better on a lantiq. I dont diss lantiqs which perform quite poorly on my line, nor do I diss the HG612 which cant sync at 80/20 when the Zyxel performs happily and rock steady with some to spare. The vast majority of people with Zyxels seem to see better results. I'm not paid by anyone to say that.. I just use the Zyxel pure and simple because it works far the best on my line.
I think we just have to accept that its a case of suck it and see as to which performs best for you.
/off to bed as Im very tired and when Im as tired as I am... I tend to get ratty. g'nite.
ps no rattyness aimed at anyone especially broadstairs in case it looked like I was being having quoted his post.. that was just to clarify the behind aspect.