Hi all,
Just wanted some suggestions on this.
The named router is what I use here at the abode and which get plenty of use from all the family. As mentioned elsewhere get strange problems every now and again where the router is synced + connected but things dont work e.g. internet is down but instant messaging will still work or one pc is online and another gets no internet access.
My theory is this is to do with virtual circuits, although i hardly know anything about it, i believe routers and or service provider limit how many of these can be established?
This afternoon have had more than the usual number of problems, and the unsual disconnect/reconnect didn't work, think it was a PPP failure. So unplugged for 30 min and then tried again and was still a bit dodgy.
Funny thing is whilst this was going on the SNR margin went to a record high upon connection, a whole 18dB (although this soon fell 6dB in seconds).
I am thinking more and more I am just unlucky using this router and am looking at buying Netgear DG834G as people have noticed it can maintain connections well on low dB etc. (i know this is not v low dB, but if I went to max in future it could certainly go low).
Whenever I go to use a BT Voyager 105 USB modem instead, to check the service or run a speedtest, all is great. Unlike the router I also get a more consistant SNR margin. Whilst I know these are only short sessions I am getting 15.5dB ds SNRM continuously as I type.
This puzzles me, as I cannot understand why the router will get fluctuation and the modem not. I gather the connection failure could be caused by the router serving multiple clients whereas the USB modem just serves me.
One final observation - the upstream SNR is almost half on the USB modem than reported in the router. Modem reports steady 7.5dB, which is working great but just seemed a bit odd.
Sorry to bore you, but any thoughts on this? Thought this might be useful material for others to read also
(Ps: BT Speedtest recorded 483Kbps on USB modem, 512k connection, which was quite impressive given some of the problems we get)