Hi

Does anyone know will the 2850n support the new bt 160MB connection

http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/consumerProducts/displayTopic.do?topicId=25633&Infinity=yes

Very hard question at present because i don't think even the draytek have test it yet

in theory it supports the 30a profile so speeds with 30a profile are up to 200mb .... but you may have to contact the support direct to see what they say ... because many users are having problems with speed even with the 17a profile and the up to 80mb speed

This is from draytek UK web

On VDSL, the Vigor 2850 series supports the very latest services for speeds up to 80Mb/s (depending on line quality and length).

but before when first was only the 40mb with infinity ... was saying at the same web was supporting up to 50mb and now was updated to 80mb so maybe in the near future will state up to 160mb

Depends wether or not any other features of the 2850 support that speed. I.e firewall throughput.

If its anything like my 2820 then unfortunately regardless of having a 100mbps Wan2 port the firewall can only hande a throughput of 50mbps, completely rendering the 100mbps port as sub standard as it cannot handle the true wire speed of my virgin 100mbps connection despite having the settings in the wan section for 100mbps full duplex on the port negotiation.

I mean who is going to turn off the firewall?

I'd check with support on the firewall throughput of the device before getting your hopes up!

checking with support is good idea but i think the firewall of 2850 is up to 90-100mb.Not sure if in future may updated

babis3g wrote: checking with support is good idea but i think the firewall of 2850 is up to 90-100mb.Not sure if in future may updated

Well if it is as you say 90-100mbps on the firewall throughput then the connection will never be able to download at 160mbps with the firewall turned on rendering the new BT infinity service restricted to the firewall throughput rate as is the case with the 2820, I can not utilise more than 50mbps on a 100mbps with virgin.