O2 ADSL2+ LLU

As discussed in my previous blogs I have now finally made the transition from Virgin media [cable] to O2 adsl2+

Luckily I signed up to O2 when Quidco were offering £125 cashback if i signed up to a 12 month contract at £22.50 a month

The other deal I got is that i have a free BT line that was installed two years ago courtesy of Entanet who offered me the chance to trial the new adsl2+ 21cn product, what Entanet or BT did not realise is that the line is still active 18 months after the trial finished so I cheekily applied to have O2 adsl2+ provisioned on a line I do not own nor pay for !!.

So a tad over £12 a month for a BT line and 20MB adsl2+ is a cracking bargain!!.

i am sure virgin media could not match that

Here are some stats from the Dg834GT router flashed with DGteam firmware [was initially a sky router].




O2 provided me with a O2 branded Thomson tg585n router but it is utter pants, firstly the Firewall does not work correctly nor can you configure it, also functionality of the O2 firmware is non existent, forget the O2 II box with the publicised vulnerability, the O2 III box is just one big bag of shite, you ring up O2 and they do not support networking lol, and you can see why

the Exchange hardware uses a broadcom chipset so it makes sense to use a netgear router with a broadcom chip and what better than the DG834 series with optional SNRm adjustment using the DMT tool

check out my other blogs on how to flash a SKY branded Netgear dg834gt