Surecom Routers

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Does anyone here have experience with Surecom ADSL routers?

They have a wireless ADSL router available - the EP-9410SX-G -
http://www.surecom.com.tw/pd-wireless-9410sx-g.htm.

Its really well priced, even though it appears to support some of the higher-end functions like QOS, Multi-SSID etc. (That I learned by paging through the manual at :
http://www.surecom-net.com/support/download/drivers/wireless/A3/9410SX-g_A3_Manual.zip)

I'm in the market for something similar, so any comments or experiences with this specific model (or even Surecom stuff in general) would be appreciated.

Thanks!
 
PostmanPot said:
never heard of them, stick to Billion/Netgear..
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Rather funny you should mention Netgear as they and Linksys outsource all their engineering and development to such noname Taiwanese outfits like Surecomm while they only do the marketing and distribution.

Have you ever heard of Cybertan Technology ???.

http://www.cybertan.com.tw/

Well they are the chaps who actually engineered and build the WRT54G range of routers for Linksys ... and was that a crappy product ... well I think not :D.
 
Surecom are pretty good.

Seems to be 2 different ranges...

one with a connextant chipset
Ugly difficult interface, but it's cool because it supports bridging and PPPoE at the same time

one with a Surecom interface
really nice looking and easy to configure... Lacks one or two features.
 
You're onto something Carlhead - there are 2 hardware revisions according to the website - downloaded the manuals, and the diffs I can see :

A1 - the older one. TI "wireless" chipset - no mention of router chipset. Looking at the photo, if it was green, I would have said it was a Duxbury. Ugly interface, lot less features than A3.

A3 - the newer one. Web interface looks much better - nicely branded this time around and more cleaned up with the addition of an EzSetup wizard. But looks similar to the A1 in layout. Probably a never revision chipset with newer firmware in a more snazzy casing. Much more feature-reach than A1 version.

I think I'm going to give this one a go and see how it runs...
 
sgs said:
A1 - the older one. TI "wireless" chipset - no mention of router chipset.
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Now that would be the TI AR7W which is a router and wireless chipset which was used in the first generation of ADSL2+ compliant routers like the Netgear DG834 and DLink 504 and 604T.

Since it is only clocked at a rather slow 150Mhz most vendors switched over to more powerfull and cheaper and compact designs from Broadcom and others in their followup products.
 
Update : Got one and installed it. Working fine. Haven't tried any connection heavy apps like p2p yet, but will do a bit later.

Looks to be based on the TI AR7W - so its nothing special. Runs BusyBox linux.
 
We have a client who uses a Surecom device, damn thing is problamatic as hell!

Stay away!

Even their web site is up to snot! AVOID!!! :mad:
 
PS: This thread is almost 4 years old, and Surecom has long since gone bankrupt. (But thanks for the warning - I fully agree :))
 
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