Date   : Mon, 10 May 2010 12:08:09 +0100
From   : adsb@... (Andrew Benham)
Subject: [OT] ADSL capabilities

On 09/05/10 04:46, Mike Tomlinson wrote:

> I had a quick look at ebay earlier today.  Plenty of DG834GT routers
> available for a couple of quid. 

I've never had a DG834GT.  I have a DG834G v1 (the v2 is essentially
the same beast in a smaller box with a different power supply
requirement) and I've seen this still holding up when the noise margin
has gone negative (although the UI reports a large positive number as
someone hasn't learnt about signed integers).
The DG834(G) v1 and v2 use the TI AR7 chipset, I don't know if this
is significant - and I don't know what the DG834GT uses.
My DG834G v1 gives better sync speed than anything else I've tried -
almost all of which use a Broadcom ADSL modem chip.


Going even more off-topic, some users seem to delight in tweaking their
router (especially SpeedTouches) to the max, to get the ultimate sync
speed at the expense of stability.  I've always thought it's better to
have a slightly slower stable connection than a faster flaky one.

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Andrew Benham         adsb@...       
Southgate, London N14, United Kingdom

The gates in my computer are AND OR and NOT, not "Bill"