[dodgydrains]

Up and running now.  Speedtest shows slightly faster than what I ordered.  This is over wireless powerline.  So far very impressed.

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[dodgydrains]

I drilled a hole through the metal door frame in the living room.  Hyperoptic came and installed the socket and connected the router (ZTE H298A).  Activation is on Monday

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I had to cancel the order.  There are no wall sockets available in my hallway.  They refused to drill a hole to the nearest socket in a room as they only run cabling on the surface indoors.

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The wiring is already done up to the front door.  Once you order they need to drill a hole through the door frame.  Then run cat 5 cable to the nearest power outlet.

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I was going to be given the Tilgin HG2381.  Unfortunately the lady engineer would not be able to run the cable to my living room.  Need to drill a hole through the wall.  Stuck with the DSL AC88U

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Thanks for that, looks like the other one is Tilgin HG2381.  Never heard of either of them .  Enjoy your dinner…..

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My contract with TalkTalk runs out in a month or so.  Hyperoptic is available in my building.  Never used them before but decided to take the plunge on their 150Mb package.  Hope it is the right decision.  At least I will not have to deal with this router for a while if things go well.

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Grisu wrote:

@UK-Sentinel: switched with a relay, starting on g.fast and after a minute or so switching to DSL. for G.fast: Microsemi MSC Le87281 and rest: Broadcom BCM6303

Is the BCM6303 an old chipset?  How does it compare to the one found on the DSL-AC88U?

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If I buy a 7582 from eBay (sellers are from Germany and Austria), will the UI be in English?

Also will you still receive firmware updates as normal?

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The 7590 looks good.  I read somewhere g.fast is on the 7582 and 7583, cannot find one on Amazon for UK use.  I use the google WiFi Mesh for reaching far ends of the house.  Works really well for me.

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Mrk26 wrote:

Routers are completely different story, as for routers there is custom fw where are lot of bugs are solved. Merlin guide Asus with future releases and even help them with official releases. Not to mention that in some cases he tested if not even testing now pre release builds. (just info I found online). I use custom fw on my new rt-ax88u and is rock solid, so where I will never look on asus all in one device(modem-router) there is a definitely option for router only from asus.

I am aware of the support provided by Merlin with Asus routers, but I cannot give money to a company that treats customers this way.  After all the problems with the AC68U, I had hoped that they will have learnt from their mistakes.

Anyone know if there is a Fritzbox that supports g.fast for UK?

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If mine was still under warranty I would definitely return this now.  Asus have been absolutely disgraceful with the lack of support on this product.  I for one will not be buying any more modem/router or router only devices from them.  Why would I buy anything from them when they treat customers like this?

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Happy new year UK Sentinel.

It is great Asus are still supporting this model.  I had one before and the features on it were amazing.  Only reason to get rid of it was that it was not good for my longish line.

Shame Asus does not show any love for the newer DSL-AC88U.

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Yes I am using the modem on the DSL-AC88U with wireless turned off.  I have Google Mesh handling the Wi-Fi.

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It’s using the OpenVPN method and the following guide:

https://privatevpn.com/support/getting-started/routers/asus-rt-models/openvpn

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