Considering buying Spectra. Need some advice

^^ Glad to know you've subscribed to Spectra :)

Yeah you'll need a VPN/Seedbox, torrents are throttled to 2-20Mbps, either that or you'll have to stick with usenet.

Also, what was that about a built-in torrent client, didn't come across it :S don't suppose you could give me some info about it ?

BTW, as of this time, since noon it seems like sites outside India are being badly routed again :/ @varkey
 
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@kevinkeller You could achieve Gigabit speeds over the normal Cat 5e cable as well, you don't necessarily need Cat6.

Yep, the ONT is setup in bridge mode. If you attach the ONT directly to your PC (and also assign a secondary IP address in the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet), you might be able to access to the web UI at http://192.168.1.1. I haven't tried it, but I think that would work in case you want to take a peek.

I don't do torrents much, but although initially it felt throttled at 30 Mbps or so, nowadays whenever I needed to download something from well seeded private trackers, it has worked great. I get around 150-175 Mbps.
 
@Absinthe good to have confirmation about torrents.

The torrent client feature is found under the USB section. It's a Transmission torrent client which runs off the router, so that you don't have to keep your PC running. It needs a USB drive attached to store the files. I can't take screenshots right now, but here is the manual for the router. It is a bit dated, but the features are similar: Source
(go to page 227).

Yeah, I noticed the routing issues too.

@varkey thanks for the info.

I saw the listing for AmazonBasics Cat6 cable (link) where it says speed is 1000 Mbps. Didn't think too much about it. I should have checked Cat5E as well :). Cables haven't arrived anyway, I'll get Cat5E itself.
 
The routing is a mess right now, and many sites aren't opening or its really slow. I have opened a ticket, they said they'll get it fixed soon.

For instance www.amazon.in gets routed via London, Paris to be returned back to India! :eek::rolleyes:

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So apparently the above issue is something that is going on all over India (from what the CC rep informed me) and they are working on a fix. Just now got an SMS as well stating that the issue would be resolved by 11 PM.
 
Didn't take the pic myself, but it looks exactly like this :

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If it helps, additional information behind the router :
Code: 
P/N : OIR825IIN....G1E
H/W : G1     
F/W : 7.00
 
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