Well that only took a month. Not the record for the longest it's taken me to reply to something, but getting close
After a little reorganisation here I've been on wired for the past 24 hours or so. It's been absolutely stable and good throughput since the last reboot which, was funnily enough, about 24 hours ago - the wireless went to pot back then, signal strength went through the floor and packet loss just got ridiculously silly.
Still think this router is a pile of smelly brown stuff, but at least we can be specific now and elaborate on reasons for its rubbishness.
Was contemplating firing up a Cisco 2620 to do the job as a home router, but a little overkill.. not to mention noisy! Still toying with the idea of an Airport Extreme, but I've heard bad things about its 5GHz performance.
Anyway, back on topic.. it appears the WGR614v9 is rubbish for wireless. I'll give it a few more days on wired before I decide whether it's useless at that too
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PS: latest modem stats in case you fancy a read.. I've noticed some interesting differences between this set and the last lot - power levels have changed as have both downstream and upstream modulation.
Cable Modem Downstream
Downstream Lock : Locked
Downstream Channel Id : 30
Downstream Frequency : 298750000 Hz
Downstream Modulation : QAM256
Downstream Symbol Rate : 6952 Ksym/sec
Downstream Interleave Depth : taps12Increment17
Downstream Receive Power Level : 2.0 dBmV
Downstream SNR : 39.4 dB
Cable Modem Upstream
Upstream Lock : Locked
Upstream Channel ID : 4
Upstream Frequency : 46200000 Hz
Upstream Modulation : QAM16
Upstream Symbol Rate : 2560 Ksym/sec
Upstream transmit Power Level : 51.0 dBmV
Upstream Mini-Slot Size : 2