Got one today.
Backstory is that Talk talk keep phoning me up to upsell me, and in a fit of pique I told Peter from Talk Talk (in reality Parvesh from Bangalore) that I was dropping Talk Talk and he could stuff it up his ass.
Anyway, a few weeks later I get an email asking me if I want a new router - free.
Well of course I said Yup.
And it arrived three days later, a Talk Talk branded Huawei HG533. What a nice box!, looks good, and install is a simple matter of cabling it up and turning it on. No configuration required, no entering of any details including name or password. Its chosen a fairly conservative signal / noise ratio profile, but has still connected at the same rate as the old Netgear. It has great Wifi range, and the Canon MP490 printer connected to it as sweet as a nut (that can be a right git to change settings) using the built in WPS. Added a USB drive to the built in USB port, stuffed some music on it, and all the DLNA (samba) devices in the house found it easily.
Best of all it was free.
And I am still moving to BT internet next month.
Edit, ruddy hell forgot how many wifi connected devices we had in the house, took longer to reconfigure all them than it did to install the new router.
Last edited by: Zero on Fri 26 Jul 13 at 20:50
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