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    Looking for recomendations: Westell 327W replacement

    in General Discussion

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    I have 3/768 as well. I don't use the 327W as there are two versions of them. One is assembled in America, the other in China. The Chinese version has bugs galore, lacks WPA support, so forth.

    I would recommend using a Westell 6100. You can obtain a replacement modem free from Verizon.  The 6100 is a single port wired router.

    Then, if you want wireless, get yourself a Linksys or other common consumer router and enjoy.

    You could set it up several ways:

    a) DSL Modem/Router set to "BRIGE ONLY" and a secondary router to do PPPoE authentication or

    B) DSL Modem/Router set at defaults, with a switch or a wireless router connected to it. If a wireless router, it will draw it's ip from the DSL Modem via DHCP.

    I've been using Westells since 1999 and I haven't really had many problems with them, OTHER than the 327w. The 6100 is a nice little router. Add a switch and it's 4 ports. If you want wireless, it's better to use seperate components, as it's impossible to get support for the 327W.

    Here's some forums which may help:

    http://www.dslreports.com/forum/westell    &  http://www.dslreports.com/forum/ilec,vz

    Good luck

    Dave

    OOL 15/2

    in Show off your speed

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    looks like IE7 is faster on the download,Firefox much better upload;go figure

    Agreed. I noticed the same thing (IE7 is sometimes signifacantly faster on tests than Firefox 1.5.0.3) and I've tweaked and untweaked Firefox to try and come up with a reason.. Still can't find one other than perhaps too many extensions being loaded up here in my setup.

    Dave

    OOL 30/2 rocks!

    in Show off your speed

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    Thanks for the welcome, guys.

    Very interesting forum, and quite informative.  I usually see speeds in the 18-24 range from the mirrors here, which is quite good. I'm using a Motorola SB5120 modem, just swapped a few days ago from my trusty SB5100 which seems on it's last legs.

    To CV's credit, BOOST runs on a seperate  downstream frequency (reserved for 30mbit users), which for me happens to be 609mhz, and a seperate upstream frequency, which for me again is 28mhz. UBRs which offer Boost have been upgraded to 256QAM downstream and TDMA upstream [and since it's still a docsis 1.1 service, that yields some 43megabits per second downstream and 10megabits per second upstream per modem.

    if High Speed.3                      = 43 Mbps

    if High Speed.4                      = 10 Mbps

    ^^ Absolute per-CPE max on a Docsis 1.1 network.

    Downstream modulation type          = QAM256

    Upstream channel type                = A-TDMA

    Current modulation type              = A-TDMA

    ^^ Upgraded UBR.

    I'm enjoying this service. It's not very expensive. I also run 3/768 ADSL.

    Regards,

    Dave (Streetspirit)

    OOL 30/2 rocks!

    in Show off your speed

    Posted

    :::.. Download Stats ..:::

    Connection is:: 33028 Kbps about 33.03 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB)

    Download Speed is:: 4032 kB/s

    Tested From:: https://testmy.net  (Server 1)

    Test Time:: 2006/05/31 - 8:04am

    Bottom Line:: 576X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 0.25 sec

    Tested from a 12160 kB file and took 3.016 seconds to complete

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3

    Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 290.4 % faster than the average for host (optonline.net)

    Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-T8VJ0B15Z

    got a linksys WRT 54GS Speedboost router;really helps

    The downstream test is wrong. 32mbit after overhead, on a 30mbit service - nice trick.. I also have the service.

    How can you possibly get 32mbit when the service is capped at exactly 30,000,000 bps, which is exactly 29296.875 kilobits per second, or 28.610 megabits per second.

    Here are the downstream and upstream caps on ALL boost modems:

    lckhsr71@froonium:~/usr/bin/nc/work/ $docs -vv | grep -i "boost"

    docsQosMIB.1.2.2.4.2.2476.1          = [Octet-string] "OOL-BOOST-US"

    docsQosMIB.1.2.2.4.2.2476.2          = [Octet-string] "OOL-BOOST-US"

    docsQosMIB.1.2.2.4.2.2476.3          = [Octet-string] "OOL-BOOST-US"

    docsQosMIB.1.2.2.4.2.2477.1          = [Octet-string] "OOL-BOOST-DS"

    docsQosMIB.1.2.2.4.2.2477.2          = [Octet-string] "OOL-BOOST-DS"

    docsQosMIB.1.2.2.4.2.2477.3          = [Octet-string] "OOL-BOOST-DS"

    lckhsr71@froonium:~/usr/bin/nc/work/ $docs -vv | grep -i "30000000"

    docsQosMIB.1.2.2.6.2.2477.1          = [Gauge32]      30000000

    docsQosMIB.1.2.2.6.2.2477.2          = [Gauge32]      30000000

    docsQosMIB.1.2.2.6.2.2477.3          = [Gauge32]      30000000

    lckhsr71@froonium:~/usr/bin/nc/work/ $docs -vv | grep -i "2000000"

    docsQosMIB.1.2.2.6.2.2476.1          = [Gauge32]      2000000

    docsQosMIB.1.2.2.6.2.2476.2          = [Gauge32]      2000000

    docsQosMIB.1.2.2.6.2.2476.3          = [Gauge32]      2000000

    The test is overestimating your downstream.

    One of the most accurate tests for BOOST users is Visualware's at http://myspeed.visualware.com/?c=_di

    These guys put a lot of thought and research into designing an accurate speed test. Take a read: http://www.myspeed.com/support/qos.html & http://www.myspeed.com/support/faq.html ....

    Anywho, you're obviously getting great speeds but I just wanted to note that you cannot possibly exceed the docsis 1.1 cap AND the overhead! It's just physically impossible, unless you uncap your modem to 35mbit or so :)

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