Re: ADSL - Firewalls - Routers

["Tim Fletcher" <timfletcher@xxxxxxx>]

Hi, this is of great interest to me - I understand my line length distance
is 5.7Km but my attenuation is close to 60Db - therefore ruling me out.  My
problem is the ability of getting through to the right person at BT - If
they don't have a menu option for it on their screen they can't point you
to the right place.  If you know of any department I could contact to get
my line tested here - and any idea of how a poor result could be remedied I
would be really grateful.

64K Tim : (


----- Original Message -----
From: Simon Coates
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] ADSL - Firewalls - Routers


Ditto..ditto....
I've just got broadband (this Monday..yippee!) I too can recommend the
Vigor2600X.  They've come down in price recently as well.

It was touch and go whether BT would let me have adsl because of my
distance
>from
recently raised this to 60dB.  The attenuation at my NZ was a bit over 61dB
:o(  I persaused the engineer to test it again where the line comes into
the
house.  He even went back to the exchange and took the pair off the
exchange
and brought back a different tester.  The reading was 59.5dB :o)

The router confirms this as it reads around 59dB - and I've also got a very
poor S/N ratio - seen it as low as 9dB - but the Vigor2600X works great.
I've tested the bandwidth which nearly always close to 1/2M.  I think
there's only a few people that have signed up for adsl on our exchange so
far - so I've nearly got it all to myself - so contention isn't a problem
:o)
Also, there's a firmware update on Draytek's site for lines with high dBs.

Mark, the easiest thing is to get a 2600 and plug it into your line and
network - it does the rest!

Regards

Simon

----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Lowe <ian@xxxxxxx;
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx;
Sent: 05 February 2004 22:47
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] ADSL - Firewalls - Routers


> Ditto.. the Vigor 2600 is head and shoulders above any of the other
ADSL
> solutions we have seen.. We have a good dozen of them installed
without
> incident: and the VPn is awesome as well.
>
> I use the Vigor 2600X, which has ISDN and ADSL. :)
>
> Ian.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Abbott [mailto:steve.abbott@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 05 February 2004 21:40
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] ADSL - Firewalls - Routers
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> I use a Vigor 2600, and have installed about 10 now into customer
> premises. I haven't had any problems with them.
>
> Its definately easier to get working that a server based router
> solution.  The wlan version also works well.
>
> Steve
>
>
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