Originally Posted by
Cornish Jack
Thanks chaps - for a while there I thought it might be the only zero reply thread on PPrune!!
Undoubtedly excellent assessments re. routers but we wrinklies generally have to make do with what we have.
The query was really more about the 'why' rather than the 'how' ... probably wouldn't have understood the answer anyway.
Pull the other one - you wrinklies are generally the only ones with disposable income these days anyway
Anyhow, I would do what Booglebox suggested. However i'm both a ZyXel and Draytek reseller and whilst both are fine routers in their own right, i'm personally a big fan of the Shibby builds of Tomato (
Tomato by Shibby » Alternatywne oprogramowamie na routery)
I'd therefore suggest you put the Technicolor device in modem mode (RFC2684 is usually what it's called) and go out and buy yourself an Asus RT-N16 router, download the latest Tomato release (plus download the Asus firmware updater) and convert the Asus router into a Tomato router. It's incredibly easy, and very powerful and reliable once you have it. Plus the routers can be had for about £60 (and if you want even more reliability, buy yourself a Draytek Vigor 120 modem to replace the Technicolor, as it comes pre-configured in RFC2684 mode so there's no buggering around with that).