On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, Terry Duell wrote:
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:48:21 +1100, Andrew Mather <mathera@gmail.com> wrote:
I have always had pretty good results from Billion equipment. I use the 7404 range, which may be a bit expensive, but they tend to be good at holding a connection and they are stable.
I have had less than stellar experiences with a couple of Netgear routers and WAPs over the years, although their ProSafe switches (the ones with the blue steel cases) have been fine.
Thanks for your response.
I bought the Billion 7300 series several years ago (their cheap crap range?). I bought it specifically because the marketing literature mentioned "watchdog timer". If the marketing literature mentions things like that, then surely it was designed by actual engineers without the marketing department's help, right? Well, it turned out it needed it. And it doesn't always work (as opposed to my older netcomm modem that needed it and didn't have it). It's a linux machine under the hood, with not much memory and no swap. And the watchdog timer is probably just a shell script or its monitoring the wrong thing (perhaps not the ppp link?) -- Tim Connors