Acathla
13-09-2009, 12:06
Chaps, I am looking at gathering people's experience with this router. Was installed on Friday along with my new 50meg. Initial experience of the 50meg is fantastic, apart from I am suffering from a large amount of noise on the upload line but I am assured the tech's will get onto it to fix next week.
The router on the other hand is causing me so many problems. It looks stunning sitting on top of my modem but it's just slow and unreliable.
Throughput wise its good - I'm going through the router and a switch and I have no problem hitting 50meg mostly all the time - in fact the tech was even surprised how quick it went.
Problems start when you actually try and use the router! Config pages are soooo slow. Clicking from page to page can take several seconds (I'm talking up to 10 most of the time) which is just not good enough.
DHCP - this is flakey as heck. Works when router has just been rebooted but after a few hours it seems to refuse to issue addresses out again. Have some devices dynamic DHCP and some with static DHCP reservations but it doesn't seem to help. Amazingly the dynamic assignments and even a little more reliable than static assignments!
NAT Loopback - This router doesn't allow for NAT loopback. If you don't know what nat loopback is have a read here (http://www.dyndns.com/support/kb/loopback_connections.html), Basically if you have port's forwarded through your router for any services in your LAN, then try to access them from your LAN, your connection will fail. Yeah I know you can edit your hosts file to prevent your connection failing on nat loopback but that doesn't help when your WAN port and LAN port are different.
I'm going to try and stick with the router over the next couple days and see if these teething issue fix themselves. I'm going to pen a note to VM and Dlink to see if they can fix them with a firmware upgrade.
So interested to hear your experiences. Maybe I've got a duff router?
Last question, anyone know a third party firmware (dd-wrt, tomato, etc..) that works with this router that could help resolve these problems?
Cheers for reading!
The router on the other hand is causing me so many problems. It looks stunning sitting on top of my modem but it's just slow and unreliable.
Throughput wise its good - I'm going through the router and a switch and I have no problem hitting 50meg mostly all the time - in fact the tech was even surprised how quick it went.
Problems start when you actually try and use the router! Config pages are soooo slow. Clicking from page to page can take several seconds (I'm talking up to 10 most of the time) which is just not good enough.
DHCP - this is flakey as heck. Works when router has just been rebooted but after a few hours it seems to refuse to issue addresses out again. Have some devices dynamic DHCP and some with static DHCP reservations but it doesn't seem to help. Amazingly the dynamic assignments and even a little more reliable than static assignments!
NAT Loopback - This router doesn't allow for NAT loopback. If you don't know what nat loopback is have a read here (http://www.dyndns.com/support/kb/loopback_connections.html), Basically if you have port's forwarded through your router for any services in your LAN, then try to access them from your LAN, your connection will fail. Yeah I know you can edit your hosts file to prevent your connection failing on nat loopback but that doesn't help when your WAN port and LAN port are different.
I'm going to try and stick with the router over the next couple days and see if these teething issue fix themselves. I'm going to pen a note to VM and Dlink to see if they can fix them with a firmware upgrade.
So interested to hear your experiences. Maybe I've got a duff router?
Last question, anyone know a third party firmware (dd-wrt, tomato, etc..) that works with this router that could help resolve these problems?
Cheers for reading!