I read this thread with great interest and subsequently purchased a Billion 5200g off ebay for the grand sum of £3 !
True enough the router would synch at 6-7db, whereas the SNR set on my line seems to currently be 15db, this resulted in me gettting a much better connection speed and my IP profile raised as a result.
I then read about the XP SP3 issues with this router (which would affect me when SP3 is deployed via auto updates) and applied the latest f/w. This unfortunately has removed the special ability of this router and I'm back to a SNR or 15db.
Does anybody have an older f/w or link to one, that I can reflash with?
Many Thanks,
Tim