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Broadband Related => Broadband Hardware => Topic started by: prettyflyguy on April 09, 2016, 02:18:55 PM
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Hi all
Having just had my EO line put onto a newly installed PCP and Huawei 96/128 FTTC cabinet I have ordered Sky fibre pro which goes live on 12th April. Around 100 metres from the cab so looking at full speed and guaranteed minimum of 73.7Mb.
Not a big fan of the SR102 which is supplied so was looking at either the TP-LINK Archer VR900 & VR200 as a replacement but when looking for them on Amazon I noticed that they had the TP-Link ARCHER VR600 AC1600 on there http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-ARCHER-VR600-Wireless-Gigabit/dp/B01DAZPDXK/ (http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-ARCHER-VR600-Wireless-Gigabit/dp/B01DAZPDXK/) none in stock at the moment though, Dont know if its officially been released yet.
Cant find much about it online except on TP-link http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/Archer-VR600.html (http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/Archer-VR600.html)
Not sure if if it will work on Sky fibre or if needs new firmware on it like the VR200 had recently ? Should i just opt for the tried and tested VR200 or VR900 as no reviews on this yet.
Anyone know any more about this?
Cheers
PFG
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The VR200 uses a Lantiq DSL chipset.
The VR600 uses a Broadcom DSL chipset, possibly the BCM963268 (based on the GPL source code for the TD-W9970, which happens to also contain a few kernel config files for other models). A Broadcom chipset would be a better match for the Huawei cabinets, although this may not matter much if you are going to easily get the full speed with plenty of room to spare.
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Thanks for the info ejs
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VR600 is a lot cheaper - nice find. I previously ordered the VR900 - I note that it's down to £100 on amazon now.
(not keeping it - will post seperate thread)
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I am on an ECI cab so I now use the VR200 as it has a Lantiq VRX268 chipset (128MB RAM). It seems rock solid so far (2 days in) and syncs 2.5mb higher than my previous Billion 8800NL. It supports G.INP both ways too, if BT ever enable it!
The stats are a bit basic though:
Line Status: Connected
DSL Modulation Type: VDSL2
Annex Type: Annex A/B/L/M
Upstream Downstream
Current Rate(kbps) 20000 69444
Max Rate(kbps) 23859 69644
SNR Margin(dB) 6.7 6.0
Line Attenuation(dB) 17.6 17.4
Errors(pkts) 16 172
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TP-LINK Archer VR600 is £71.99 on Amazon at the minute, i am really tempted.
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Anyone know if this work's with DSLstats??
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At a guess, no. The VR600 has the right chipset, but it seems to be TP-Link's practice to disable access to the BusyBox shell and provide their own limited custom CLI in its place. (See VR900 v1 and v2).
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Cheers Roseway,
Oh well, we'll have to see what happen's, currently I'm using a BTHH5 so anything better and more advanced than that, I wasn't really going to bother with TP-Link again after my past troubles with their WiFi capabilities but this one is advertised as being DFS capable (which was my issue with past devices)...
I'm not sure whether or not to have a look at an Asus device though, I've had an Asus router before (AC87U) and found it to be a beast with WiFi but never had an ASUS DSL router before and have noticed a few people making complaints about modem issues on VDSL.
Cheers again for the info! :)