Just replaced sky router = mind blown

[Apache14]

Iv been having endless issues with the sky supplied router, main one was that there was no QoS on them (this caused any device trying to download a file to use up all the available bandwith, making the internet unuseable on other devices). After a while of digging into the issue i decided to replace the router with a TP-LINK TL-WR1043ND and installed dd-wrt. The router is £45 on OCUK and it only took ~20min to set up with dd-wrt, the difference is mind blowing iv seen the following improvements :-

• Massivly increased wifi speed and range
• QoS that allows all devices to use the network with bandwith being shared properly
• Fast router interface (waiting 20sec a page on the sky router is just stupid)
• Maximum download rate seems to have gone up by ~1MBit/s
• Optional usb network storage (on the router)
• The crazy amount of other options that dd-wrt has

Would anyone would like any other information or even a step by step guide for setting up dd-wrt to work with sky fiber (inc cloning your sky routers WAN address) ?

[gorebrush]

Like the sound of QoS

I used to have Cisco routers but none of them were any good for Fibre. Considering forking out for another, but DD-WRT sounds like fun too.

[stepeters]

Would anyone would like any other information or even a step by step guide for setting up dd-wrt to work with sky fiber (inc cloning your sky routers WAN address) ?

that would be brilliant, would that include obtaining the necessary log-in details from the 2504?

i'm also having issues with the sagemcom 2504, and was looking at one of the TP-Links on ebuyer's site which are
compatible with Fibre / DD-WRT, cheapest shown was about £53

thanks,

Ste

[stepeters]

just had to reboot the lot ... again.

got home and found web pages were loading very slowly and my sons xbox
wouldn't connect to whatever game server he was trying to play.

did a quick speedtest and it confirmed that my d/l speed was 0.5Mbps and the
u/l speed the same... ping had gone awry as well.. 50+ms

one reboot later and i'm back upto 38Mbps / 9Mbps / 14ms

hope its the router and not the modem.

[thomasjc1]

£42.40 for the tp link router on amazon

[Apache14]

just had to reboot the lot ... again.

got home and found web pages were loading very slowly and my sons xbox
wouldn't connect to whatever game server he was trying to play.

did a quick speedtest and it confirmed that my d/l speed was 0.5Mbps and the
u/l speed the same... ping had gone awry as well.. 50+ms

one reboot later and i'm back upto 38Mbps / 9Mbps / 14ms

hope its the router and not the modem.

Yeah the sky issued units are very bad at resorse management. If you have xboxs, computers, phones and tablets all hammering the router and UPnP enabled software continuasly changing port forwording (xbox does this a lot) you will have to reboot on a daily bases (I did).

I would recomend the TP-LINK TL-WR1043ND as stated above, below is a link to OCUK who stock this router for £44.99 a very good price and it runs dd-wrt like hot knife through butter.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-024-TP

You could probably find it a few quid cheaper but iv always had good service from OCUK. Ill make up a step bu step guide before the weekend that includes getting the requierd information off of your sky router, and full setup of dd-wrt on this device (and others)

[Apache14]

Well all you need from the 2504 is the LAN MAC witch is on the router status page (where you see downlink and uplink speed), and the original wifi key (on the sticker on the router). I will also show how to get the 2504's WAN MAC witch isnt 100% needed, but if sky ever started filtering who they give an IP out to by MAC address it will be needed.

[slickric21]

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Would anyone would like any other information or even a step by step guide for setting up dd-wrt to work with sky fiber (inc cloning your sky routers WAN address) ?

Yes please

I've just ordered a NetGear 3800 for £86 from Pixmania ebay store and plan to use it with DD-WRT firmware when I get to switch to Sky fibre in the near future.

Would love to have a step my step guide to be able to follow when I eventually get my Fibre !!!!!

[hang_check]

Thanks for the info. Any chance you could test Wake Over WAN? Currently I can't telnet in to the Sagem router to add the MAC/IP Address permanently so that the ARP table doesn't lose the info. If you can do this and get it to work I'll be buying one.

Cheers

[gorebrush]

Go on then, I'll bite. I've ordered one.