The axe in the chook shed (aka Billion 7402G ADSL router)

You know the old trick of hanging an axe in the chook shed to warn them if they don’t start laying eggs, then they will be Sunday’s roast ?

Well, it works with other things too.

I’ve had a heap of trouble with my ADSL router recently – dropouts several times a day, lockups, general misbehaviour.

Since I would find it rather difficult to be without my ADSL link for any period of time, I have been reluctant to send it back to where I got it from for them to have a look at it. From reports I’ve read elsewhere, the modem I got (Billion 7402G) is considered very reliable, but occasionally people get a dud.

I ordered a second identical router that I would use as a backup / spare once I had sorted out my current routers problems. Funnily enough, since it arrived a week ago, my router has been up for 6 days straight !!

I haven’t even got around to taking the new one out of the box yet.

… but the router should be warned – if it so much as thinks about starting trouble, it will be out the door faster than it can say “when is our exchange being ADSL2+ enabled?” !!