On 31 Jan 2010, at 23:28, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
James Freer wrote:
Some of you have said that a BT router works ok and some have said ditch it and buy one.
Perhaps you could be kind enough explain technically [but simply for the less knowledgeable!] what exactly is wrong with a wired BT Voyager.
My experience is as follows
Voyager series routers....OK not great but ok, afaik no longer supplied.
Home Hub era stuff.....evil, BT have a back door, can be configured out of the box to silently provide BT Openzone public wifi, nasty web interface, limited in terms of reconfigurability, unreliable Wireless.
BT don't just can, they do reconfigure, - I disabled FON on mine through the interface, and a month later, it was available again, and no option to disable apart from going online to BT and entering all your user account codes and disabling it at BT's end. My Home Hub is actually really nippy - I'm getting a much higher speed on that hub to BT then using any other router, but it also does some other wierd things with port forwarding.
Its port forward interface is actually really nice for causal use - you specify which computer you want to forward to, and then even if you're not static, it only connects it when you're switched on, and always gets the right computer (I presume is mac based, so I highlight the word causal again)
Its downside is that its http forwarding seems to be like a proxy - instead of being at a low level in the networking and just forwarding the packets like most routers, it does seem to be intercepting the request and sending it out again, which is really frustrating at times.
JT