Best Wifi Router

Andrew

Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
Location
Huntingdon, UK
Fed up with the Plusnet router. It’s a rebadged Sagecom 2704N and is quite slow considering I can get ultrafast broadband.

Can anyone recommend a decent router? Needs to be fast and reliable. Will be used for work, plus streaming films, occasional gaming etc.
 

Steevo

Member
Location
Gloucestershire
Normally end up making do with whichever freebie is supplied by the ISP. If you swap providers each year you get best broadband deal, and keep your router within warranty should it fail. Seems to work well so far.

Used to buy Netgear routers but got fed up of their unreliability.

As above Draytek seems to have the name.
 
just recently stopped using a Netgear one because of wi fi trouble . Using a "Fritz!box now - cost me £50 ish , ex Zen internet . All seems good so far , bit "spaceagey red " looking but no worse for that . It's on fibre , and doesn't need the BT modem box that the Netgear one used .
 

milkloss

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
Another vote for draytek. Been through tplink, netgear, ASUS and all couldn’t hold on to our bb connection for some reason despite be coming out three times. Plugged a draytek in and never dropped since in probably two years.
 

Walter12

New Member
About 3-4 years ago I bought a Netgear N450 wireless ADSL2 + Modem Router DGN2200 from MicroCenter for less than $100. I've had no problem with it. At about 200 feet my signal can be seen as 2 bars strength. I prefer the combo, as it takes up less space. At a price point of under $100, if it lasts for 5 years, you've paid about 5 cents/day and by then probably time to upgrade.
 

LeslieBShaw

Member
Location
England London
In 2017, I bought If not mistaken Netgear 6300CA nighthawk, could work through app. It was nice, because WIFI 5g. But after half year it started to make me problems so hard I was very angry :D, and $100 price was also.
 

upnortheast

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Northumberland
In 2017, I bought If not mistaken Netgear 6300CA nighthawk, could work through app. It was nice, because WIFI 5g. But after half year it started to make me problems so hard I was very angry :D, and $100 price was also.
Not to confuse mobile broadband signals 3G, 4G 5G ( G stands for generation ) with the output from Wifi kit which will be either 2.4 ghz or 5ghz, or in some cases dual band ( transmiting on both bands)
 

Deutzdx3

Member
Orbi net. Gives a seamless WiFi network. Bloody expensive. Uses a base station and keep adding remote satelites. Constant speed and really reliable. Did I mention really expensive! [emoji23] £400 for a base unit and two satelites. [emoji24]
 

colhonk

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Darlington
Hi, Think I must need a new router. Have a Technicolor 528n Pro, What model Draytek to replace it? Hard wired to my desktop, use them 3pin plug into the wiring things to get it to my daughters pc,The only wifi we use is my OH`s tablet. works ok but forever having to switch router off and or press rest button to get it working again, Have a massive up to 6gbs (if I am lucky) at times.
I know nothing of all the gibberish quoted on the the web sites.
 

Campbell

Member
Location
Herefordshire
We were having a lot of spooling on internet TV. We have a BT Hub 2 with a TP link extender. By chance we tuned the TV directly to the BT hub, result no more spooling...:). It seems the TP link was degrading the signal all this time. Note, ours is an old house with thick stone walls, so even better news for the BT hub 2 system.
 

A1an

Member
I've never really been convinced that the repeaters are any good for streaming HD content on TVs. Hard wired every time.
 

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