l2wal wrotehmmm true lebanon is the weirdest country especially when it comes to internet... hmmm i don't think it's recommended that i recommend my friend to get WG8901G since its basic one "G" not even "N" hmm am confused what do you think is the best one available in lebanon that has "N" lol glad i don't have this headache personally with this X3000, i saw your talk about the WAG160N but after reading a lot of reviews i see that it start having problems in connecting/disconnecting after a while and the wifi range is low btw how much did these 2 routers cost you? and any recommendation in any adsl router that is available in lebanon
No, the WAG160N is pretty stable I had one 2 years ago and never had to reboot it the whole month; I don't trust reviews from customers online honestly, most of them spamming or don't know how to configure the modem correctly and they start nagging and bashing the device. But the WAG160N is not available in Lebanon also.. go figure. Got the thomson TG585 v8 for 97,000 LL , WAG120N for 82$, WAG160N for 105$, DSL-2730U for 34$ X3000 for 161$ and the DSL2640U was supplied by Ogero.
Thomson TG585 V8 is the one I am using now, this thing is a freaking piece of art. You just need to be a real geek and go CLI all the way. It's like if they have installed linux on it. I spent 4 days on this shit reading the manual and tweaks hacks ect. If you manage to squeeze the juice out of it , you won't be disappointed.
But since I don't care too much about the wireless feature on the modem, I can't really advise you since I haven't tested it.
My final setup is
Phone line -- > Thomson TG585 V8 in bridge mode - > Airport Extreme ( handling PPPoE/ NAT/ routing ) Simultaneous Dual band 2.4GHz and 5GHz -> iMac
Reason for using bridge mode is that almost all ADSL modems have slow processor ( 166Mhz-300mhz ) with onboard 8MB -24MB RAM and limited NAT table 2048-4096. The Airport Extreme runs at 1.2Ghz with 128MB RAM and 29000 NAT map table size. Torrenting is much faster and no lags when stressing the connection with multiple connections / second. The modem is just dealing with the ADSL Sync and acting as a transparent gateway.
I have checked the CPU utilization on the Thomson while torrenting and it was all the time between 82% and 100% 97% Kernel/ 3% user ( reason why GUI is slow to respond )