I recently bought a new wireless modem. The DrayTek Vigor 2820 ADSL monster. It does loads of cool stuff. I bought it to replace my Netgear DG834N, which now and again would stall on me.
My first challenge was to find transfer the ADSL settings across, this is boring stuff, but took me an hour to find it on the web. I'm writing it down here, so it won't take me so long to find next time.
Be broadband uses:
VPI: 0
VCI: 101
Encapsulation: 1483 Bridged IP LLC
Subnet mask: 255.255.240.0
Gataway: 78.105.0.1
DNS1: 87.194.0.51
DNS2: 87.194.0.66
The draytek lets you create multiple wireless networks, I used to to create two. A private one for me and a public one for guests. The public one has no security, limited to just 512kbs upload and completely isolated from the rest of my network.
Next project will be to fiddle about with the VOIP features of this thing.
I'm hopeful that this is a good piece of kit. I'll see how I get on with it.
I'm thinking of buying one of these, how did you get on with it?
Posted by: Phil | Friday, 24 April 2009 at 02:31 PM
On the whole I've been happy with it. I've not used the voip features yet though.
I have found that when using bittorrent on one machine, then other machines have difficulty accessing the web. I should be able to get round that via the use of the QOS setting on in the admin console.
It looks like you should be able to give priority to certain network traffic. So in theory, I should be able to downgrade bittorrent traffic an give a higher priority to http/https traffic, but I've not fiddled enough to get it working.
Posted by: Ben | Friday, 24 April 2009 at 03:39 PM
Hi, How did you get in with setting up the QoS feature? I'm tearing my hair out trying to get it to work.
Posted by: Sha | Thursday, 15 April 2010 at 08:20 PM