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Missismiggins

Well, since my previous posts and the problems I had using the Billion DSL Modem, provided by TOT and my D Link wireless router, that seemed to have endless problems with torrent files, I can safely say, that removing these two pieces of equipment and buying a new replacement has been a Godsend.

On Saturday I bought a Belking N150 modem/wireless router, so was able to remove the TOT supplied modem (The D link went the night before smashed into a hundred pieces) It must have been fried, it wouldn't even upload simple JPG files to an online album, every single photo hung and disconnected about half way through, while the router red light came on and disconnected.

Anyway, I can recommend the Belkin, way way ahead of the previous kit.

This thing has been connected since Saturday night, it hasn't dropped a connection yet, has downloaded about 6 movies - of dubious quality I may say, but that's me not the router.

Had it running today and it was running bit torrent downloads at 304KB/s, I was still able to use firefox, and the kids were in the other room on line playing one of those "Guitar Hero" online games - the internet connection is 3MB/s, so this thing was working it's ass off.

I did some speed checks today too, and it is the highest ever upload rate i have ever got.

So, if you want an all in one wireless/router/modem, from my past sad experiences, I can certainly recommend the Belkin - it's on special at 2700 Baht or thereabouts!