I'm an ex-O2 customer. My newfangled SR102 sucks, even worse than the old Thompson router. I've complained about it to Sky to no avail. Periodically it locks up, refuses to respond via the web interface and snuffs it periodically. Power cycling it fixes it instantly but it's doing it 5 times a day. Sky replaced it and the new one did it as well. That was as far as they went. The WAN interface is still up and operational as their test routines still work fine so they say there is no problem and refuse to help further assuming I'm a wally. No difference if you use wired ethernet or WiFi. Various conversations and the highest level person I could talk to doesn't even know what a packet is.
Now I'm not a wally. I spent a number of years writing bits of network stacks for embedded systems so... not wishing to give up on such a thing, I fired up wireshark and watched the packets on the wire and used tcpdump on a remote system I have access to. Basically a few bytes are send successfully, then the TCP connection is dropped. Same story every time. This plays havoc with Windows' network detection as the packets that it sends are smaller than when they drop so windows thinks the network is up even though the router is nuking the packets. I tried from an OpenBSD host as well on the LAN to eliminate Windows from the picture too.
Consequentially I'm going through periods of pain, only softened by the sweet giffgaff tether to my phone.
So, the SR102 is a lemon and that leaves me with the only option which is to replace it with something usable until the contract runs out.
So I'm looking at a Microtik RB951 and using a separate modem as an ADSL/PPPoE bridge.
Now there seems to be lots of conflicting info on what Sky actually use. Is it a PPPoA or PPPoE or MER or what? There's also some MER nasty with DHCP 60/61 going on and MAC cloning. Is there anything official that points out what I need to consider before I splash the cash on some kit.
Either that or should I just cut my losses, pay up for the rest of the year, get my MAC code and grab Zen/Andrews and Arnold in and take this SR102 outside and punish it for its sins?
Any technical opinion, information or ideas welcome.
Now I'm not a wally. I spent a number of years writing bits of network stacks for embedded systems so... not wishing to give up on such a thing, I fired up wireshark and watched the packets on the wire and used tcpdump on a remote system I have access to. Basically a few bytes are send successfully, then the TCP connection is dropped. Same story every time. This plays havoc with Windows' network detection as the packets that it sends are smaller than when they drop so windows thinks the network is up even though the router is nuking the packets. I tried from an OpenBSD host as well on the LAN to eliminate Windows from the picture too.
Consequentially I'm going through periods of pain, only softened by the sweet giffgaff tether to my phone.
So, the SR102 is a lemon and that leaves me with the only option which is to replace it with something usable until the contract runs out.
So I'm looking at a Microtik RB951 and using a separate modem as an ADSL/PPPoE bridge.
Now there seems to be lots of conflicting info on what Sky actually use. Is it a PPPoA or PPPoE or MER or what? There's also some MER nasty with DHCP 60/61 going on and MAC cloning. Is there anything official that points out what I need to consider before I splash the cash on some kit.
Either that or should I just cut my losses, pay up for the rest of the year, get my MAC code and grab Zen/Andrews and Arnold in and take this SR102 outside and punish it for its sins?
Any technical opinion, information or ideas welcome.