[thesage01]

UK Sentinel wrote:

Ok, so I have had feedback from those nice people at DrayTeK regarding the Vigor 166 GEN 2 and BT approved Firmware. —– The Vigor 166 models are functionally identical. The only difference is that one can support 212Mhz G.Fast which may be introduced in some countries, however Openreach (BT) have no plans to use/adopt 212Mhz in the UK and it’s not currently supported in the specification of the UK model. We wouldn’t expect any different in performance between the v1 and v2 models. Only the model with product code/SKU ‘V166-K’ would be the UK specification (UK specific hardware/firmware/support). Hope that helps. —– So no BT approved firmware for the Vigor 166 GEN 2 at the moment

 

Thanks for the update. Looks like I’ll have to update to the V166_GEN2 compatible version and see what happens with the DSL drops I’d been getting overnight using this previously.

Appreciate the updates on this though. Thank you

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In all honesty I’ve not even thought to contact them myself. I just put it in a drawer when it wasn’t updating and dropping DSL overnight.

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stumbled across this forum and thread while doing the Google search for info on my 166. For reference I picked up a Gen 2 166 EU version from eBay last year to use on my g.Fast line.

In terms of the use of it, it worked fine on first connection and I was getting solid speeds from it and was able to see all the line stats etc.

Then it started getting regular DSL drops each night out of hours and wouldn’t auto reconnect again until manual intervention and a hard restart.

That led me to looking into upgrading the firmware to the latest BT approved version but it looks like that isn’t possible on the EU gen 2 boxes due to getting the unsupported hardware error message.

I’ve not tried the normal no BT 4.2.3 version yet but I’ve got back to the Openreach g.fast modem for now

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