Hi,
I'm getting fed up with being "blind" with respect to errors on my DSL, the routers I have to hand are all deficient in some way - Linksys doesn't record errors, Plusnet 2704N records errors but isn't supported by any monitoring software, Cisco 1801 would be perfect except for a hardware fault causing the DSL to lock up.
So it looks like I'll need to buy something, and one idea was to buy something cheap as a short term measure. The two I mentioned, Billion 7800N and Technicolour 582N are readily available second hand. I'm not sure on the pros and cons, but as far as I can determine the plus points would be ...
Technicolour - supported by Router Stats. Cheap.
Billion 7800N - more expensive, more capable in terms of features? Supports SNMP (but MIBs apparently undocumented so no way of knowing of the DSL details are actually accessible). Noise Margin tweak available.
Any thoughts on the two, particularly in terms of DSL performance? I don't want to get something that will slow us right down. I'd prefer SNMP if possible as I don't particularly like these monitoring programs that run as user tasks rather than services.
Thanks, Tony S