Re: Broadband Quality Trial
 

The modem connects to your routers WAN port. Then connect the "devices" WAN port to one of your routers LAN ports. Then plug everything else into the "device's" LAN ports.

On a different note, the device I was sent has stopped working. It just sits there, not giving me a connection at all.

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There should be a means to opt out of this if you no longer want anything to do with it, but as far as I can see, there isn't.

I guess I should have read the details more carefully, but it doesn't matter. If they send me any equipment now they've wasted their time, I shan't connect it up.

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You really are so negative these days Mark. Chill out a bit :)

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Just email them and say you dont want to take part anymore.

Then the router can go to someone who actually wants to take part.

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Nope, it needs everything to go through it as it has to monitor when your connection isn't in use.

The only way around it is the way I have it set up which is to use a 3rd router, and have modem -> router -> testing kit -> gigabit router -> everything else, that way everything internet based will go through the performance testing kit, but local traffic can still be on a gigabit network.

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or you can buy a cheap router and have it between the modem and the test kit.

modem -> cheap router -> test kit -> existing gigabit router

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Which is setting it up exactly how I've said?

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No its like I said. ;)

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Your "or" consists of adding the words cheap, and existing, to what I wrote. I'm not seeing how that makes it an "or" which is an alternative, when you're saying exactly the same thing as I did?

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so i cant have it

modem -----> Test Kit ----->Dlink Dir 655

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Wow chill out, it was just a joke.

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Just been looking at the newgroups and there are a number of people on the trial who apparently all suffered a loss of speed - strangely enough, it was all at the same time.
So is this the speed, or some fault with the measuring do we think?

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Well, Im on the trial, and I got sent a duff router, and the mail address they give us all to report problems stopped replying after a hard reset of the router failed to work.

I'm unsure what to do next, tbh. So the routers nicely packed back in its box for now.

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My speed is all over the place.

Its because its been running tests while ive been downloading though. The kit is rubbish. It should sit between your router and the modem, not between your stuff and your router.

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Does anybody know when this trial is ending?

Ive had my magic silver box removed for a month or so, recieved an email from the trial guys informing me that it was disconnected, and politely asking me to plug it back in which I have done, after all fairs fair :)

But i would like to remove it again in the next month or so, so i can reconnect my Gb switch, its kind of inconvienent this box now.

But as I won a prize in the draw I would like to assist these guys as much as I possibly can :)

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About a year wasnt it??

What did you win in the prize draw?

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I have just got one of those performance monitoring kits this weekend, can i access the device in any way? I thought you were able to view stats and stuff.

My router has given it the ip 192.168.1.92 however it doesn't appear to have a web interface active, it is running an SSH server though.

Also can I set it up modem > performance monitoring kit > router?