I must be one of the most unluckiest people here...

My grief began when we got our D-Link DSL-504T router... back then, ADSL2+ was starting to become widespread news. It didn't matter too much to me at that stage.

Then I find out that we're going to be on hold for ADSL2+ support, even though support is available through a firmware upgrade we're still waiting for!

Then life goes on and we needed wireless (lappie, iPod...). My mum bought a WRT54G last year to compliment our router. Well, I knew that performance wasn't going to be as good as Ethernet, but.... I had 2mbps over Wi-Fi standing right next to the router!!!

I looked online, found out that other 3rd party firmwares exist for our WRT54G... all but for v7.

... and you guessed it - we got a v7. Not a v7.2, but a v7.


Damn.


I even used the Ethernet connection coming out of the WRT54G, and it was only slightly better (I got 3mbps... )

Now with such a shambles of a network we have at our house, no wonder we're not progressing our Internet capabilities to the maximum, and our investment is now nearly useless.

Wish I could sell them all... except that I don't own the gear... my mum does - and she's not up for ADSL2+ and doesn't care.


If I got to manage our gear, I would sell them and get something like a RTA1025W (or anything good for ADSL2+ and provides a respectable speed over Wi-Fi)


[Envies everyone else with a better networking system than me]

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