Broadband Quality Trial

You dont get to keep it anyway

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Originally Posted by joglynne

Well if VM play fair my area will be represented but being some what cynical, and not having seen anywhere that VM aren't the ones choosing who to use, I suspect that VM will not have missed the opportunity to load the results in their favour.

VM are not actually running the trial are they ? I thought it was Samknows ?

[Hiroki]

Anyone know how we return these routers at the end of the trial?

[dd11]

Originally Posted by Hiroki

Anyone know how we return these routers at the end of the trial?

a long time before you need to worry about that i'd say.

[joglynne]

Originally Posted by Paul M

You dont get to keep it anyway

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VM are not actually running the trial are they ? I thought it was Samknows ?

As far as I know, I signed up on a VM site, from what I have read VM sent out the acknowledgments of the applications and the confirmations of acceptance on to the trial. If these emails came from SamKnows then I apologise to VM for not trusting them.

Although the equipment may well be supplied by Samknows I can find nothing that says their involvement in this trial is anything other than the processing and interpretation of data obtained by the test modems, with nothing having been said about their ensuring that the choice of trialists was a fair representation of VM's BB customer base.

LOL I'm sounding as though I wear an aluminum hat which is not like me at all. I guess this trial has just got under my skin.

[Milambar]

I was delivered a nice Linksys WGR54GL in the post today, along with setup instructions...
So the first thing I did was set it up, and nmap'ed it. Its only got one listening port, port 22. All the others are in a closed state. Closed, not filtered.

PS. I hope that they let us keep them, along with instructions on how to reflash the firmware to Tomato or DD-WRT at the end of the trial. I've always wanted a 54GL, all the local stores only sell the new 54G-UK models.

[Zhadnost]

Depending on version of the board, there are some pads on it that you can put a header on and use a JTAG cable.

Personally I prefer some of the GS's, they were a bit better specced.

[Mustard]

Just got a really ugly bare metal box with a massive antenna for use with the trial.

Had to hide it in a cupboard - it was making me feel sick just looking at it...

[Peter_]

Originally Posted by Mustard

Just got a really ugly bare metal box with a massive antenna for use with the trial.

Had to hide it in a cupboard - it was making me feel sick just looking at it...

Are you on 50Mb as everyone else got the Linksys.

[Mustard]

Originally Posted by Moldova

Are you on 50Mb as everyone else got the Linksys.

Yeah, 50Mb. Is that the reason for having this ugly thing?

[Peter_]

Originally Posted by Mustard

Yeah, 50Mb. Is that the reason for having this ugly thing?

Probably as all the smaller packages received the Linksys which is 54g so not powerful enough for a 50Mb connection.

[Zhadnost]

I assumed the wireless bit wasn't even anabled and the reason why the 54GL was being used was that it makes a cheap, handly little embedded system.

[BenMcr]

Well if it is sensing wireless activity then the 54g wouldn't work for a 'N' router with 50Mbit

[Zhadnost]

It didn't occur to me that it would be sensing wireless activity. I can't see how that would work.

[Peter_]

Originally Posted by Zhadnost

It didn't occur to me that it would be sensing wireless activity. I can't see how that would work.

It is a passive receiver so that it only runs test while you are not utilising the bandwidth that is why the antennas must be fitted.

[Zhadnost]

Wouldn't it make more sense for it to sit between the modem and router?