Hi!

Not sure I'm new here, but I haven't posted outside blog comments before. I'm also not sure after looking at all the forum titles which one's suitable, so a mod please feel free to move this.

Anyway, I've had some oddities with my DSL-504G_TX (yeah, an Xtra one) using SIP (I'm using italk.co.nz and voipbuster.com). After a while of using a SIP client (softphone or physical phone, it doesn't seem to matter), to cut a long story short... the modem stops responding, including the web admin interface. Physical reboot (power cord pull) does the trick. Sometimes it's more subtle like certain websites in my browser not responding, or SIP not working but everything else working. A reboot (in this case, a web admin/telnet reboot command or a power cord pull both do equally well) also works in this situation.

So, first question -- am I alone in experiencing this? Firmware updates didn't seem to help much.

Second question -- what are some 'known good' routers I can check out? http://www.ascent.co.nz/Category.aspx?majorcatID=6 is what I'm looking at at the moment, though alternative sites or straight make or model numbers I don't mind hearing about either. I'm especially looking at 4-port Ethernet wired at the least -- on top of that, 802.11a/b/g or b/g (failing that g only) would be a bonus; I already have a 802.11a/b-enabled laptop but might likely be changing that soon.

Any comments? I've nearly gone bonkers on the first question, not helped by Slingshot telling me they haven't had many reports of D-Link trouble.

Thanks,
Jonathan.

EDIT: a/b laptop