Free router - only pay postage dagidave.co.uk

nava

Hi

got a mail that Digidave is giving away free routers but you have to £18 for postage.

They have 3 but only work with ADSL Broadband not on Cable broadband (UPC/NTL) so not much use for us unless we plan changing to Smart.

quaalude

nava wrote: »

Hi

got a mail that Digidave is giving away free routers but you have to £18 for postage.

They have 3 but only work with ADSL Broadband not on Cable broadband (UPC/NTL) so not much use for us unless we plan changing to Smart.

I've used the Thomson unit they're offering here with cable broadband: http://www.digidave.co.uk/jshop/product.php?xProd=323&xSec=30

You can get a config file from Digidave that will allow LAN port 4 on the router to be used as a WAN port, so you can actually use the Thomson 716 with a cable modem.

nava

quaalude wrote: »

I've used the Thomson unit they're offering here with cable broadband: http://www.digidave.co.uk/jshop/product.php?xProd=323&xSec=30

You can get a config file from Digidave that will allow LAN port 4 on the router to be used as a WAN port, so you can actually use the Thomson 716 with a cable modem.

Thanks, ordered 1.

Do you still have the file? if you do when you get it can I get a copy of it?

I wonder if any other router has a similar file. Will search google.

Davy

*Refurbished Units

nava

davton wrote: »

*Refurbished Units

Didn't notice that, but once they have Warranty I'm ok with it, bought a few Refurbished items over the years and never had any problems. hope is the same now.

quaalude

nava wrote: »

Thanks, ordered 1.

Do you still have the file? if you do when you get it can I get a copy of it?

I wonder if any other router has a similar file. Will search google.

Sure, no problem, I'll PM you when I dig it up.

kaizersoze

nava wrote: »

Didn't notice that, but once they have Warranty I'm ok with it, bought a few Refurbished items over the years and never had any problems. hope is the same now.

No Warranty.

LoLth

*FREE* Refurbished units

adamcp

I need to get a router to make my broadband wireless for my xbox 360 but I don't know much about them so I've a couple of questions
Will any of they work for Eircom broadband?
Would they be quick enough for gaming?

Random

£18 for postage? Is he renting a van specially for it?

jayteecork

Could one os these be used to create a wireless port with Mobile Broadband?

neacy69

quaalude wrote: »

You can get a config file from Digidave that will allow LAN port 4 on the router to be used as a WAN port, so you can actually use the Thomson 716 with a cable modem.

I was looking for one of these config guides for one of the zyxel dsl routers anybody got one?

Good offer on the routers if you are using dsl

quaalude

adamcp wrote: »

I need to get a router to make my broadband wireless for my xbox 360 but I don't know much about them so I've a couple of questions
Will any of they work for Eircom broadband?
Would they be quick enough for gaming?

The 2Wire 1701 will work fine with Eircom, and is 802.11g wifi, so should be fine for gaming. If your 360 is wirelessly-enabled it will work fine with the 2Wire.

LoLth

adamcp wrote: »

I need to get a router to make my broadband wireless for my xbox 360 but I don't know much about them so I've a couple of questions
Will any of they work for Eircom broadband?
Would they be quick enough for gaming?

The first two should work fine for xbox, though my preferred one would be the first (the home one) as it has 802.11g while the netopia is 802.11b. Eircom DSL is a bit weird at the minute. their ADSL2 seems to be compressed slightly different from the other broadband providers. I had trouble getting anything other than a Netopia to work properly on it. A 12mb line was only coming in as 8mb using a DSL2/2+ Zyxel router, eircom tech support werent much help

Not sure about the last router on the list.

About the postage, £18 is a bit steep but I picked up a wireless PCi card for £12 and the total postage dropped to £12 so approx €30 total for pci card + broadband router = happy me!

dingding

nava wrote: »

Hi

got a mail that Digidave is giving away free routers but you have to £18 for postage.

They have 3 but only work with ADSL Broadband not on Cable broadband (UPC/NTL) so not much use for us unless we plan changing to Smart.

Offer now finished, selling Routers for £10 each

Onikage

Freespeech.ie were doing a deal like this, join one of their plans (min contract 1 month?) and get a refurbed Thompson VoIP router for €10.

jayteecork: This is what you would need for 3G sharing (reuires 3G usb modem)
http://www.infoferenda.eu/index.php?product_id=1&page=shop.product_details&category_id=1&flypage=flypage.tpl&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=2

DannyD

random wrote: »

£18 for postage? Is he renting a van specially for it?

Exactly. This is not a "free router".

It is a refurbished unit and he is making a profit by charging the crazy postage price. Please don't post such lame 'free' offers.