{"id":197,"date":"2011-01-11T22:32:43","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T22:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/?p=197"},"modified":"2022-07-25T23:27:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T22:27:41","slug":"thompson-broadband-router-upc-model-twg870","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/2011\/01\/thompson-broadband-router-upc-model-twg870\/","title":{"rendered":"Thompson Broadband Router (UPC) Model: TWG870"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So I recently got 100Mbps Broadband from UPC \ud83d\ude42 My Cisco EPC2425 got replaced with a Thompson Broadband Router (Model: TWG870UIR).<\/p>\n

Default Settings<\/h3>\n

Login URL: http:\/\/192.168.0.1<\/a>
\nUsername: <blank>
\nPassword: admin<\/p>\n

SSID: UPC00XXXXX\u00a0 (AFAIK, the SSID of Thompsons will be in the format UPC00….)
\nWPA2-PSK: <should be on the sticker underneath the router><\/p>\n

Manuals in PDF<\/h3>\n

See attached two manuals for this Thompson Broadband Router.
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Thoughts<\/h3>\n

The router itself is nicer than the EPC2425<\/a>. It is a gigabit router, so my wired network is much faster than before. The wireless (n) was OK. I highly recommend that if you want to get full 100Mbps, you will need to use a Ethernet Cable (see my article on creating a network cable<\/a>). I got max 60-70Mbps via wireless. This router however has no Dynamic DNS options (as had the EPC2425, albeit that didn’t work great either as its settings didn’t remain).<\/p>\n

The 100Mbps broadband speed from UPC was very good. (100Mbps down, 7 to 10Mbps up) I am able to\u00a0download 12.5MB (megabytes) a second consistently. However that is only with the use of a Download Manager (which downloads several threads together). I used LeechGet 2009 (worked ok). With a single download, speeds were around 4MB\/sec. Speed tests on the UPC website <\/a>\u00a0(and UPC nl website<\/a>) showed the advertised download and upload speeds.<\/p>\n

A Download Manager (or program with threaded download capability) is required to get full use of the 100Mbps Internet connection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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