Beware of buying a Zyxel HW660 router, The nokia770 will not connect with it, I spend days trying but it just will not work. Any other router works fine

in my experience, (pc tech) i've noticed that ALL zyxel routers are utter ****.

Make sure you re-create your connection configuration in the 770 from scratch when you change settings on your router. I had problems with my router, and I discovered that creating a new profile on the 770 worked much better than trying to change settings on an old profile.

This isn't meant as a thread ressurection, but I think my info should be here for those who are scratching their heads as I was.

Disclaimer; I work for an ISP that uses Zyxel routers, and those seem to work out fine, for the most part.

BUT.. I couldn't get at stable internet connection with my new N800, and went crazy trying to solve the problem.

I'd get choppy internet for 1-2 minutes, and then nothing, just timeouts.. Not actually a wifi disconnect, just no traffic.

I tried all types of security settings, wpa/wep/none, and fiddeling with any setting i could think of with the wifi, but nothing.

If i started a ping, from my NIT, it could run for hours on end, but any kind of web browing or program download/update would halt after a few seconds. MicroB might seem slow, but with the added constant timeouts I was ready to throw it out the window.

I also experienced random reboots, and eventually sent the NIT back for repairs. I recieved it back (the same one) now with the reboot problem solved. But the networking was still as bad as before.

The only stable connection I could get was with my cellphone over bluetooth.

I tried switching routers at work, but the problem continued. I tried upgrading to OS2008, but still nothing.

Eventually I found out that if wifi powersaving on the tablet is set to intermediate OR off the problem is gone. And I later found out other accesspoints worked fine, just NOT Zyxel routers. This setting needs to be set for every profile that uses the router, so it needs to be redone if you change SSID etc..

I hope to save someone else months of frustrations like i had, when the problem wasn't reproducable at Nokia's repair shop

The router in question was Zyxel prestige P2602R D1A (and I tried various router firmwares, and multible routers) and Zyxel P660HW (again with various firmwares and routers)

I used to use a Zyxel modem for DSL, and the thing drove me nuts. Very sensitive and constantly neededing rebooting. If that's any indication...

I was most happy with Netgear mimo routers, but I went through 2 in a little over a year. They're awesome when they function, but the lifespan isn't worth it, sadly.

I can't wait until Buffalo resolves their legal issues and can sell routers again. I want to try their latest FON router.

Suggestion: Can't you identify the AP's manufacturer from it's MAC/BSSID? So a script, on connecting, could check manufacturer, and turn powersaving down for Zyxels. Likewise for any other types having such trouble. The only trouble is data collection; to make it work (and to not turn on powersaving unnecessarily), it really ought to include:

• Some automatic way of detecting that powersaving is the problem, and adaptively changing it.
• A local series of graylists for different powersaving levels.
• A way of synchronising the local list with a server.

Now it's something like DenyHosts; I think this could actually work.

Extrapolation between data points is a bit of trouble; if MACs for a particular model have trouble, but others from the same make don't, we can just say that within a single OUI, anything between known bad points is bad; but what if there's two models with trouble, and one between them that's not. (Or interleaved blocks of MACs for models...) That will graylist the good ones in the middle.

That's just details, anyway. What does anyone think of this? Good idea, or should someone just make a lame zyxel-specific script and post it?