Morning all;
I currently have a Draytek 2800 ADSL router, but have found it has problems with connecting to my ISP; it can drop out and take many minutes to reconnect (up to an hour sometimes) and reports an abysmal signal / noise ration on my line. Phone company says they cant do anything about this as it due to me being at the very ragged edge of the coverage of the exchange.
I swapped it for my old Belkin F5D7630 ADSL modem, and this seems much more tolerant of the condition of my line; it reconnects far quicker than the Draytek and drops out much less often.
Problem is, the Belkin seems to be prone to interference (or so I assume) from something on the Wireless side. It will often drop out for no apparent reason for a few seconds, then come back up at a lower signal strength (reported on the client application on my laptop). Setting the channel to "Auto" on the router seems to "help"- it jumps channels rather than dropping out, but my laptop takes an age to follow it to the new channel ;(
So, does anyone have any experience of a wireless router that a) is tolerant of not very good ADSL connections and b) is robust under difficult wireless operating conditions? I have seen some advertised that have antennas far bigger than mine (sigh - aerial envy), but my knowledge of physics suggests that bigger is not always better in antenna design; though I would have had a go at replacing the existing ones to try it if they could be removed...
Any input received with thanks;
SPR ;)