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Router switch from Cisco EPC2425
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25-06-2010 10:59pm#1
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I actually just ordered UPC broadband and phone 5mb today (already had TV with them and phone/bb with Eircom). Then just by chance, a door to door guy from UPC called this evening.
He tried to tell me that you could only use a Cisco router with the new optical cables - I take it that he was talking bs ! ?
He also tried to convince me to buy off him and cancel my order !
Is it true that the N modems will only work at speeds if all devices on the Network are N ? i.e. my PS3 is G I think, so network speeds will only ever achieve G speeds ? If so, is that only when the PS3 is turned on ?
TIA0 -
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rwilson_ie wrote: »I actually just ordered UPC broadband and phone 5mb today (already had TV with them and phone/bb with Eircom). Then just by chance, a door to door guy from UPC called this evening.
He tried to tell me that you could only use a Cisco router with the new optical cables - I take it that he was talking bs ! ?
He also tried to convince me to buy off him and cancel my order !
Is it true that the N modems will only work at speeds if all devices on the Network are N ? i.e. my PS3 is G I think, so network speeds will only ever achieve G speeds ? If so, is that only when the PS3 is turned on ?
TIA
since the PS3 is G then thats what it will connect with you will need a device capable of N to get the advantage of faster wireless unfortunatly the PS3 IS on G wireless (but im open to correction still doubt that its uses N )0 -
yes and no.rwilson_ie wrote: »He tried to tell me that you could only use a Cisco router with the new optical cables - I take it that he was talking bs ! ?
"the new optical cables" he's talking about are FTTC (fibre to the cabinet/curb) not to your house, you will have the same cable to your house as you've always had, same as the rest of us and you can use either the newer cisco modem or the older modems supplied by upc like the bog standard single port scientific atlanta modem they used to supply that you can use with a broadband router either supplied by them or your own.
I have one of those modems with the current top of the range offering from upc which is 30mbps/3mbps and this is the best speed I've had out of my connection using this modem (using my own broadband router, a linksys wrt54gs with tomato firmware) which is now a year and a half old:
just as a disclaimer, that was the best I ever got, it can very depending on the time of day and day of the week, I've had it as low as 2mbps at times, but for the most part it's fine.
if you don't plan on going any faster than that, it'll do you fine for now, but UPC are rolling out newer upgrades around july/august time (unless the date has changed, maybe someone can confirm) which will be using a different standard (EuroDOCSIS3.0) to the currently used one and this standard isn't supported by either the older SA modems or the newer cisco routers either afaik, so any upgrades to that will require another new modem to work.
quite why UPC are continuing to roll out the cisco is anyones guess, it's been far from popular in their user community, maybe they just aren't ready to roll out the newer hardware yet or maybe they are, but it's just not backwards compatible with the older docsis standard currently in use so they don't have a choice.
if you ARE looking for a new router then, depending on your budget, I'd look for something labelled as either a broadband or cable router (not a dsl router, they won't work) with the following, in (approximate) order of importance depending on your budget:- an RJ45 Ethernet WAN port of at least 10/100 Mbps (to take advantage of future speed upgrades)
- 802.11n Wireless 2.4Ghz (just about any router will have 802.11g already, 802.11n will help futureproof you a bit more)
- gigabit ethernet LAN ports to keep your internal network speedy if you have wired clients on it.
- dual band wireless 2.4Ghz & 5Ghz
- 3rd party firmware support like DDWRT, Tomato, OpenWRT etc. if you think you might want to add a few features down the line. you never know.
and yes, so far the PS3 is wireless G only, but that's not to say there won't be a wireless N dongle i the future. the new Xbox360 slim that's about to come out has wireless N built in, so if it's coming to xbox you can bet it'll be coming to PS3 soon too, regardless of if it's actually needed.
if you have mixed wireless N and wireless G devices then they will each work at their respecitve speeds although it's not uncommon for wireless G devices to drag down the speed of wireless N devices on the same network.
but for the most part the sales guy was talking out of his backside though, just to make a bit of commission. you'll pretty much find that they always are, regardless. i can't imagine an honest door to door salesman lasting very long. 0 -
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