Long Line ADSL router

Thanks for helpful comments with regard to long line problems.

after a further 12hour resync this week I have finally put the BT
Voyager on its own UPS....hopefully that will keep it connected
slightly longer -

I have been pointed towards the Draytek2600 as a good longline
router . but doesnt support VPN....all the later products the 2700 and
2800 support VPN but the firmware doesnt support a long line update.

Can anybody recommend other routers that might be more suitable for
both long lines and vpn.

ianh
On top of a hill in Wales

In article <(E-Mail Removed). com>,
ianh <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>Thanks for helpful comments with regard to long line problems.
>
>after a further 12hour resync this week I have finally put the BT
>Voyager on its own UPS....hopefully that will keep it connected
>slightly longer -
>
>I have been pointed towards the Draytek2600 as a good longline
>router . but doesnt support VPN....all the later products the 2700 and
>2800 support VPN but the firmware doesnt support a long line update.

The 2600 does support VPN - I've deployed many, but it's all done in
software and has a throughput limitation of about 1.5Mb/sec. which will
be fine for outgoing data over an ADSL line. Make sure you flash it with
the long-line version of the software.

Gordon

On 15-Aug-2007, Gordon Henderson <gordon+(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> The 2600 does support VPN - I've deployed many, but it's all done in
> software and has a throughput limitation of about 1.5Mb/sec. which will
> be fine for outgoing data over an ADSL line. Make sure you flash it with
> the long-line version of the software.

The 2600 supports VPN, and connects VPN to the free public
VPN servers with default configuration apart from the basic
ADSL setup, it also P2P port forwards without any special
configuration (uTorrent - test port forwarding button). Netgear
ME102 wireless access points are from 99p on eBay if
you want to add wireless to the 4-port switch.
You can test it's firewall at
http://www.grc.com/default.htm
I got, congratulations, you are completely invisible,
it's as if your PC doesn't exist, not responding to
echo request (pings) or port probes.
An improvement on Outpost Firewall.

ianh, in article <1187165259.250650.104670@
57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com>, says...
>Thanks for helpful comments with regard to long line problems.
>
>after a further 12hour resync this week I have finally put the BT
>Voyager on its own UPS....hopefully that will keep it connected
>slightly longer -
>
>I have been pointed towards the Draytek2600 as a good longline
>router . but doesnt support VPN....all the later products the 2700 and
>2800 support VPN but the firmware doesnt support a long line update.
>
>Can anybody recommend other routers that might be more suitable for
>both long lines and vpn.

I've found the ZyXEL P660x-61C family give better performance
than most on "bad" sites. It supports the setting of media
bandwidth management and can be set to prioritise Xbox live,
VoIP(SIP), FTP, Email, eMule or WWW. The P660R-61C isn't too
expensive for basic installations and I've never had a call
due to them failing to re-synchronise.

--
JohnW.
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