Hi Everyone
First post here - the forum's been a huge help in getting ready for my switch over today from Draytek to using a 8924 as my vdsl modem.
I'm using a Draytek 2860 as my router in a relatively complex home network setup - 3 subnets, seperate vlans for various things, multiple ssids in different subnets, site to site vpn to an azure virtual network etc.. It actually all works pretty well, but the modem side of the 2860 has always been a little unstable. Certainly not un-performant - just unstable. My line will typically sync at 80/20 with SNRM of about 8db and I get throughput of about 72-73mb down and about 16 up. However, it's unstable and has got worse of late - drops several times each day. The odd thing is the DSLAM never does anything about it - just resyncs at high 70's and off we go again. I had a Draytek 130 in a cupboard, so pulled that out and it's a bit better - maybe only drops once a day. However, I'm on a Broadcom cabinet, with G.INP and, unusually, vectoring enabled (or at least the 130 thinks so). So, going to give an 8924 a try and see if it'll settle down. If not, I like the ability to cap the speed to try and force some stability, and if not, to get some really decent line stats to really see what's going on.
Pretty much all setup to switch over later. v28 firmware installed with the v2 modem file to sort vectoring hopefully.
I had one question at the moment - what's the .rom file that's part of the standard firmware download from ZyXEL. I've reset rom-d (although it's a retail device so likely didn't need it), and I'm not using the stock firmware anyway, but didn't know what the 1.00(AAKL.28)C0.rom was. Should I do anything with it?
I don't think I can do anything to use the 8924 as a router as I need the seperate SSIDs in different VLANs, and it doesn't look like that's possible sadly. Still, hopefully will at the very least let me gets some really decent insight into what's going in. You can look forwards to lots of stats and graphs in the near future :-)
ta
pete S