How much difference does a Router make to line stats?

[techead]

does it at all? Anyone got any first hand experience with this?

Cheers

 

[Batista]

Honestly they shouldnt, but i find minor fluctuations between different brands.

 

[chrisc]

Most of them seem to have the same chipset in them. The line speed will not alter much, unless you have a faulty one, but the wireless performance varies a lot. Many of the newer ones have 3 aerials and this improves wi-fi performance.

Stick to a good brand like Netgear or TP Link. I see many of the cheap Billion routers that Telkom used to supply are starting to pack up

 

[techead]

I got a Dlink that Telkom supply and I think it sucks balls

Got a spare netgear that Im gonna fire up.

 

[chrisc]

Had mixed service from Dlink. They don't seem to work too well where the line attenuation is fairly high. Did one in Newlands where the house is a long way from the exchange. The Dlink kept dropping the line while the Netgear was stable. Used the Dlink somewhere else and it was perfect

 

[techead]

Had mixed service from Dlink. They don't seem to work too well where the line attenuation is fairly high. Did one in Newlands where the house is a long way from the exchange. The Dlink kept dropping the line while the Netgear was stable. Used the Dlink somewhere else and it was perfect

why though?

 

[grim]

There might be slight differences in SNR margins between routers depending on what chipset it uses and quality of components.

Some routers will also hold sync at lower SNR margins than others, I remember logging into a client's Netgear DG834 to find it sitting at around 5db SNR margin, asked them if they have any internet stability issues and they said nope it works perfectly. Where other routers lose their heads at anything below 12db

 

[Gtx Gaming]

moved froma vkom to a netger to dgn1000 , line attention dropped from 42 to 34

Also Snr is more stable both upload and download snr is now 17db , where download use be like 16 and upload 12

 

[HavocXphere]

Theoretically zero. But there are fringe cases where the router might matter. Especially on lines which are super borderline & sketchy some routers cope better than others. e.g. The one might show a dodgy data packet as a CRC error while the other gives up completely and disconnects the entire line just to ruin your day.

moved froma vkom to a netger to dgn1000 , line attention dropped from 42 to 34

Also Snr is more stable both upload and download snr is now 17db , where download use be like 16 and upload 12

Assuming they both measure the values the same way & reliably....which is doubtful. In fact I'd like to hear from one of the pros whether it can actually affect it at all (the real quantities, not the reported numbers) since according to me SNR is primarily a function of the line, not the router.

 

[Tim the Techxpert]

Hi There,
Generally there should be very little difference between the routers. Of course if a router is faulty then there may be some differences.
I have had great service from Netgear and TP-Link.

Regards

Tim

 

[Gtx Gaming]

Theoretically zero. But there are fringe cases where the router might matter. Especially on lines which are super borderline & sketchy some routers cope better than others. e.g. The one might show a dodgy data packet as a CRC error while the other gives up completely and disconnects the entire line just to ruin your day.


Assuming they both measure the values the same way & reliably....which is doubtful. In fact I'd like to hear from one of the pros whether it can actually affect it at all (the real quantities, not the reported numbers) since according to me SNR is primarily a function of the line, not the router.

no real world world difference , netgear is just more stable , vkom router overheats easily , and when its to cold it dies also

vkom dailed adsl accounts faster through