Joined: 23 Apr 2007Posts: 15Location: west yorkshire nr huddersfield
the livebox is a truly absurd device and in meantime i have spoken to an alumni insider to Orange who revealed the livebox design is an utter farce and it is to be avoided.
after a few hrs with it i gave up - terrible signal, couldn't get 2nd laptop or 3rd pc to connect to it, etc, etc - so dashed out and got in desperation a belkin mimo modem/router as had heard that this newish model seems to make the best out of a bad lot with isp's such as Orange - strange i thought.
anyways, got it going 4am yesterday and not had a single problem since - 1st time in some 5 weeks ... hope i am not speaking too soon.
also, i have had personal dialogue with a uk Orange person regards this saga and they were - give them their due - very apologetic and helpful and took note of the indian help (sic) desk issues, etc.
a credit has been arranged for my account which in no way will compensate for the pains of recent weeks but is a gesture at least - so, mac code on hold for now if this stability continues.
so, what changed?
i am pretty sure Orange must have done something that needs new features/functions in any router to work, hence the mimo one suddenly being so stable and even their own livebox not being the answer - or did they just reverse engineer what they've been doing and put things back to as they were in wanadoo days?
is it user access rations/contention?
will we ever know?
in a way i don't care now - i just want it to be a totally discreet hidden service, it doesn't interest me - it's 2007, it's england - it should be as obscure and reliable as gas, water, electricity.
fingers crossed the pains are over ...
yes, i am a somewhat eternal optimist kind of chap!!
That makes sense. My own Netgear DG-814 router works far better than the Orange supplied livebox even if the connection speed is only 608K. Over the weekend I'll have to give it a firmware upgrade and see if its any faster.
Joined: 23 Apr 2007Posts: 15Location: west yorkshire nr huddersfield
btw, unsure if already aware of it here, but the v1 livebox which was an even poorer design with it's flashing light inside .... it's been known to overheat, melt the casing and subsequently set fire to its surrounding area.
this is a very serious heads-up - if you have this early version especially get it changed asap!
The length of time since the wanadoo liveboxes were sent out means if you had one it would have likely caught fire by now. Those sorts of problems were relatively rare to come across.
Also Orange won't just change a working livebox without good reason.
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