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roast

All set up now.

There is no way to log into this device, at least, not that I can find. Kinda wondering how I'm going to flash this thing once SamKnows are done with it.

Heres a pic of the Whitebox hugging my current TL-WR1043ND.


And, luckily enough, and as promised, it's not affecting my speed in the slightest.

yuloni

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roast

Condi wrote: »

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I originally thought the same myself.

But, Cable availability is very limited in Ireland compared to DSL. If the survey targets the same number of Cable users in proportion to DSL users, it'll be easy to see that Cable is what's skewing the national results. Therefore, it will be obvious from the results that DSL in Ireland is an absolute joke. It's a great comparison really.

The Real B-man

Got mine last week think its a refurb ya think they would give you a new one! :rolleyes:

roast

The Real B-man wrote: »

Got mine last week think its a refurb ya think they would give you a new one! :rolleyes:

What model. What makes you think it's a refurb?

The Real B-man

TL-WR741ND Just everything was loose in the Box like it had being used before and two A4 page crude setup guide. Free Router in two years though!

yomamasflavour

The Real B-man wrote: »

TL-WR741ND Just everything was loose in the Box like it had being used before and two A4 page crude setup guide. Free Router in two years though!

Funny, I thought the same when i opened mine, even the box just seemed a bit roughed up.

RobertFoster

I didn't think it was a refurb, just poorly boxed OEM.

yuloni

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starviewadams

Got an email off them today about this so hopefully I'll be getting one!

D'Peoples Voice

well the one that arrived to the homeplace was a TP - Link alright
but not like the one Roast received

it's a brand spanking new TL - WR741ND
150mbs Wireless N router

Doylers

Just confirmed my participation. Waiting for it to be shipped now

okla

Doylers wrote: »

Just confirmed my participation. Waiting for it to be shipped now

Me too

LoGiE

Just recieved a mail saying it will be delivered within two weeks.

Nollog

Same here, I got accepted and the box will be here in the next few weeks.

AmilcarAlho

Hi,

I've also got an email saying a box will be sent in the next few days. I've notice that they are sending different models, ones with 10/100 LAN ports, others with Gigabit.

Being with UPC 25mb be enough to get the later? Just curious. Thanks for any input!

AmilcarAlho

roast

AmilcarAlho wrote: »

Hi,

I've also got an email saying a box will be sent in the next few days. I've notice that they are sending different models, ones with 10/100 LAN ports, others with Gigabit.

Being with UPC 25mb be enough to get the later? Just curious. Thanks for any input!

AmilcarAlho

Can't say for sure yet. Personally, I imagine you'll get the lower-end model.

Doylers

Guys just thought of something about my setup.

I have the Modem --> Router with the router just being a modem and th router handling everything including connecting to Vodafone with username and password.


Will the tp link box connect to the router or what? I need my gigabit ports for my NAS and other toys.

Will it go modem--> router--> tp-link

roast

It's set up as a bridge anyway. Just connect it modem->whitebox->router.

AmilcarAlho

roast wrote: »

Can't say for sure yet. Personally, I imagine you'll get the lower-end model.

Thanks roast. I guess I have to wait and see, but wouldn't mind bridging the cisco box. I'll post my results soon!

Nollog

Got mine today.
looks like roast's.

roast wrote: »

Heres a pic of the Whitebox hugging my current TL-WR1043ND.


And, luckily enough, and as promised, it's not affecting my speed in the slightest.

At first it made every page slow to a crawl but I switched both off and back on again and it seems faster than before.

Doylers

Got mine yesterday. Took ages to get going but thanks to help on boards we got there in the end. How do I know if its connected to sam knows and working? I have the QOS light and everything on.

D'Peoples Voice

Doylers wrote: »

Got mine yesterday. Took ages to get going but thanks to help on boards we got there in the end. How do I know if its connected to sam knows and working? I have the QOS light and everything on.

thats the same white box i received.
they will email you over the next 24 hours telling you that you are connected.
if you don't receive the email, then assume something is not connected correctly

Doylers

D'Peoples Voice wrote: »

thats the same white box i received.
they will email you over the next 24 hours telling you that you are connected.
if you don't receive the email, then assume something is not connected correctly

Yeah I got the email with my logins a few hours ago. Nice to see its working. Shame I cant actually see anything on the reporting site. Apparently my data isn't being show, and its on "Johns" computer whoever he is

Nollog

Same here lol.

C:\Users\John\Documents\flash\svn\data-files\data-47.txt

Seems they updated their server or webpage?

D'Peoples Voice

http://www.businessworld.ie/livenews.htm?a=2841797

'Irish broadband worse than Vietnam'
Thursday, December 08 12:21:12
Ireland's broadband performance is worse than Vietnam, Moldova and Mongolia with this country slipping to 53rd place in the world with an average download speed of 7.86 Mbps, according to consumer pressure group, IrelandOffLine.

Ireland is the fifth worst in Europe for under-performance against service promise and the third most expensive in Europe in the service cost per Megabit per second.

D'Peoples Voice

anyone else receiving the monthly report from SamKnows?

by all accounts its nice to be able to see how reliable your connection is over an extended period - you can see at least if you're getting what you've paid for.

For example, I'm paying for 2 MB download and getting
Average 1.87Mbps
Min 0.95Mbps 8pm, Sun 4th Dec
Max 1.99Mbps 1am, Sun 4th Dec

upload, I pay for 0.5MB but getting
Average 0.53Mbps
Min 0.45Mbps 8pm, Sat 3rd Dec
Max 0.67Mbps 1pm, Sun 11th Dec

Latency
Average 31.45ms
Min 9.82ms 5am, Sun 11th Dec
Max 170.42ms 4pm, Tue 27th Dec

Packet Loss
Average 0.13%
Min 0.00% 2am, Thu 22nd Dec
Max 41.68% 2am, Sat 10th Dec

Nollog

D'Peoples Voice wrote: »

anyone else receiving the monthly report from SamKnows?

by all accounts its nice to be able to see how reliable your connection is over an extended period - you can see at least if you're getting what you've paid for.

For example, I'm paying for 2 MB download and getting
Average 1.87Mbps
Min 0.95Mbps 8pm, Sun 4th Dec
Max 1.99Mbps 1am, Sun 4th Dec

upload, I pay for 0.5MB but getting
Average 0.53Mbps
Min 0.45Mbps 8pm, Sat 3rd Dec
Max 0.67Mbps 1pm, Sun 11th Dec

Latency
Average 31.45ms
Min 9.82ms 5am, Sun 11th Dec
Max 170.42ms 4pm, Tue 27th Dec

Packet Loss
Average 0.13%
Min 0.00% 2am, Thu 22nd Dec
Max 41.68% 2am, Sat 10th Dec

Downstream throughput
76.06Mbps
Average
2.01Mbps Min
7pm, Tue
6th Dec
105.78Mbps Max
6pm, Fri
9th Dec

Upstream throughput
8.27Mbps
Average
4.47Mbps Min
8pm, Thu
15th Dec
10.08Mbps Max
1pm, Thu
15th Dec

Latency
24.81ms
Average
7.70ms Min
4pm, Wed
7th Dec
119.45ms Max
10am, Wed
21st Dec

Packet Loss
0.37%
Average
0.00% Min
3pm, Fri
16th Dec
53.85% Max
11pm, Fri
16th Dec

I'm on UPC 100mbit.

yuloni

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ArthurG

Got my box at start of Dec, between one thing and another only got it connected up about a week ago.

Overall looking good - was a bit concerned to see packed loss rearing its head, but from what you guys have reported its not unheard of.

Interesting to see how it goes over the coming weeks/months.

Downstream Throughput - 97.51Mbps Average
Upstream Throughput - 6.92Mbps Average
Latency - 20.64ms Average
Packet Loss - 0.01% Average