Draytek 2820 users

[bigmouk]

I've setup our first one up with a new 'Be' pro line. However, the Draytek syncs lower (about 5-10%) than the Thomson Router.

Luckily our exchange is about 50m away so with the Thomson I'm getting a sync of 23,000 down (23mb), however with the Draytek I can only get 21,000 (21mb) down.

So I've put the Thomson back into bridge mode and set the static IP up on the Draytek and all is fine now.

I'm assumming this is some bottle neck in the Draytek hardware or firmware, just would have been nice to do away with the Thomson router.

Is there anything I should know about with the Drayteks ? Weird issues or pitfalls ?

Cheers!

 

[Darren S]

Not known of any with our 2820's m8, and they seem leagues ahead of the other routers I've used.

You should be glad of the 21MB, even. I'm on 1.5MB (ADSL) and 1.8MB (ADSL2) at home!

D.

 

[sn00p]

Weirdly I had a conversation with an ADSL bod recently and he remarked how good the thomsons were at getting the best out of a line.

 

[H182]

The drayteks probably more stable. The thomson that came with o2 got a slightly faster sync speed than my netgear, but dropped the line every 20mins!

 

[sargey]

Draytek FTW!

Check for firmware updates. http://draytek.co.uk/support/downloads.html

And the UK forums are great. http://www.forum.draytek.co.uk/

 

[bigmouk]

I've just had the upload plus enabled aswell, was hoping to get near the max of 2.5mb but only getting 1.8mb at the moment. Think I might just monitor it for a week or two to see if there is any improvement.

 

[Cookie]

I take it you've already changed the profile on the line to fastpath?

 

[Mike_182]

Cisco 2801 ADSL bundle worked for me at my mums - helped to have one lying around, wouldn't pay the £1k asking price for it though!