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Well my old system won't reach POST any longer, so I suspect the game is up. It's been turning off randomly a lot recently anyway. Heat was about 65c on load too, maybe the CPU just gave up. Can anyone recommend the best bang-for-the buck motherboard plus CPU bundle? I'd ideally like to keep things below £200. I don't mind intel or AMD. Thanks Pete

Is it a new Netgear or bought off eBay or something? What make and model is the old router? We can look to see if you can get stats using that for comparison. These would be useful even though we know you get the proper speed, in order to see what else is different. Bob's broadband help site: www.robertos.me.uk ISP history: Demon dialup >> Freeserve dialup >> BT Broadband >> Prodigynet...

In reply to a post by JonRennie : One of my colleagues recently found a Cisco router on our network that has an uptime of over seven years...we currently have a challenge running to find one with a longer uptime although with over 30,000 devices it's a big job (unless you cheat!). I once new a guy who lost a server as in lost the phyisical box. It was acting as a nameserver on the same sort of size and it was running for that sort of...

Assuming these are from the new netgear device, seeing data from the old modem would help too. A long line with a high target noise margin most likely. I would expect you to be running faster, but to be honest it may simply be you have a Netgear router that does not like your line. Andrew Ferguson, andrew@thinkbroadband.com www.thinkbroadband.com - formerly known as ADSLguide.org.uk

Seems a bit of a bodged way of extending the line to me. What i would suggest is to wire up an extension socket to the next room from the current socket. For the distance involved it will make sod all difference to the line - though just connect via terminals 2 and 5. Get a suitable surface mount pattress box from your local DIY store or electrical wholesaler - no need to bury it in the wall. To make the install tidier ditch the dangly...

don't they give you the home hub for free ? Otherwise any old wireless router will do so if you have no special requirements buy the cheapest like a BT home hub off Ebay. Phil MaxDSL - goes as fast as it can and doesn't read the line checker first. MaxDSL diagnostics Are your kids pirates ? Limewire, Bearshare, Kazaa, BitTorrent, eMule are all tools of the trade.

Yep, too complicated. I want something a bit more mainstream.

Brilliant- Thanks dieselglider, seems to do the job will start messin' now! cheers

Hi, you could use the BT Business Hub 2Wire 2700HGV wireless router. http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=p4634.m38.... http://www.2wire.com/index.php?p=408 BT MAX 8Mbps. Sync 8128 Kbps. Exchange DSLAM=TSTC=Texas Instruments. 3Com 3CRWDR101A-75 ADSL2/2+ router uses Texas Instruments AR7 Chipset BT Business Hub 2Wire 2700HGV v2 ADSL2+ Dual SSID wireless Router

You're completely right - it is a bodge. I will follow your advice in due course and do it properly. Thanks!