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Old February 21st 10, 10:16 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Mike M
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Shane,

That's simply crazy, dumping a decent ISP because of the router/modem they
loan you for free. It's not as if they are forcing you to use their router.
What is important though if you intend soaking your Be connection for all it
is worth is getting a router using a Broadcom chipset rather than say
Conexant as the Broadcom better matches the DSLAMs used by Be for their
Be/O2 network. I'm currently using a Netgear DGN2000 and prior to that an
eBay sourced DG834PN which subsequently died. I've also an older DG834Gv2
as my reserve. The Netgear's are good because there is alternative firmware
available including DGTeam which makes them pretty tweakable.

Be's SpeedTouch 585v7 (I think) is still in its box ready to be returned
whenever I decide to move on to another ISP. May I strongly recommend that
when you return your router you get a free certificate of posting from the
Post Office as there are too many stories of Be routers going missing when
returned. The return address is also Freepost.

Mike


Shane wrote:

Noel,

I just started reading the latest of those articles I linked to,
again, and realised it involves the "Belkin N1 Vision Wireless"! I
expect to be ditching Be this year when the contract is up, in part
due to the awful routers they supply (and that they don't even give
them to you, and if you lose or bin them - I suppose the former can
happen, while the latter ought to - they claim they'll charge you
£100 for the POS). I would like to resume using my Dynamode - which
I've not yet heard of being compromised (and I like the
configurability). The Texas Instruments chip is incompatible with Be.
Or rather, their wotcha-ma-thing-ummy-doo-dah. My memory is not what
it was! iirc.