I have a belkin router and i had it running at my parents where i may as well send a letter internets that slow and it used to drop out, i now have it at my new house where its a really srong connection and it still drops out,

how do i tell what channels other people round estate are using as i have a feeling it one of them knocking it out

Download a program called inSSIDer, will scan your local area and tell you what channels people are using

ZyXel have some good products out there too.

Yep, Draytek or Zyxel. I'd say Cisco (not Linksys Cisco, proper Cisco) as well, but they're a pain to set up unless you're familiar with IOS.

Download a program called inSSIDer, will scan your local area and tell you what channels people are using

+ insidder is good

I have Wifi Analyzer on my android phone, very useful as you can wander around a building/office and see what happens to signal strength and any interference.

or NetStumbler, or a pocket PC....

I have Wifi Analyzer on my android phone, very useful as you can wander around a building/office and see what happens to signal strength and any interference.

It's on iphone as well.

'New' Draytech router working a treat - thanks for the recommendations. 100% (72h) uptime since install.

'New' Draytech router working a treat - thanks for the recommendations. 100% (72h) uptime since install.

Good choice

Rock solid stable kit, in my experience.

Which model did you opt for, out of interest?

I got the Draytech Vigor 2600G second hand as it suited my wallet at the mo. When I upgrade I'll likely be going for the 2710 or whatever has replaced it. 112 hours uptime & counting!

Woohoo

Mine's been up for about 4 months so far!

Off topic - you got a Border Terrier?

Woohoo

Mine's been up for about 4 months so far!

Off topic - you got a Border Terrier?

I do. Well remembered. She used to be on my avatar but I changed it to Salvador Dali's 'Great Masturbater' after it was suggested that folk with private plates were ******s.

Maybe time to put her back.

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I have a spare 2800 ;-)

My 2820 has a current uptime of 2782:13:31 hours (about a 3rd of a year). It should be much more but I applied a firmware update a while ago

Unfortunately mine has started to cut out. Not as often as the Belkin however. The seller is sending me another. This was a relatively old unit I bought - just need to keep going until I can afford to splash out. I tried to apply a firmware upgrade but it wasn't having it.

I have had issues with my last few routers dropping out

Turned out to be a dodgy power supply, I was using the one that came with an earlier router, didn't figure it out until it failed completely!!

Should someone explain the different type of wireless g, n ect ect I believe n being the better I'm about to go with bt fibre optic and they've sent me a router don't know what it is.

Your router will almost certainly be an N model, not a G model. It certainly won't be B.

If it has three aerials, it will be n.

Most routers from BT are Wireless 'G' & 'N' for compatibility with existing equipment. Your wireless card in your computer could be one or the other or maybe capable of both types. I recently upgraded my virgin media broadband to 30mbit and they installed a new wireless super hub which has both G & N capability also. My computers are still running 'G' cards so it's not problem just switching the router to 'G' and back to 'N' when I get the new 'N' internal cards. Just makes everything nice and easy.

A, B, G, N are "different" not better... they've got different uses.

In our office we've got a general N-spec for local access, but we've also got a point to point link running over A.