ADSL2 Router advice

Zirax · 8 Jun 2018 at 13:55

I have standard ADSL2 in a flat and need to update the router it as it is getting unreliable. Fibre is not going to be until June 2019 in the area.

Are there any routers that is recommended? I do not mind loading 3rd party software on them. Rather out of touch on this since getting Fibre in my place.

Ideally something that will allow Snr tweaking to eek out some speed.

pcfarrar · 8 Jun 2018 at 14:24

You can do SNR tweaking on Draytek routers.

Draytek 2762AC / 2862AC but they aren't cheap.

bremen1874 · 8 Jun 2018 at 15:33

No option to get a replacement router from the ISP?

Zirax · 8 Jun 2018 at 15:38

pcfarrar said:
You can do SNR tweaking on Draytek routers.

Draytek 2762AC / 2862AC but they aren't cheap.

Blimey! Yep not cheap.

Remembered something from the 'old days'. DG834GT, few £ on ebay. Now couple that with dd-wrt / tomato and it might be a winner?

bremen1874 said:
No option to get a replacement router from the ISP?

Could be a shout, it's plusnet. Depends on what their routers are like?

pcfarrar · 8 Jun 2018 at 17:16

Zirax said:
Could be a shout, it's plusnet. Depends on what their routers are like?

The plusnet hub zero that they supply for ADSL connections is horrible!

Mariusz · 8 Jun 2018 at 17:34

Billion routers allow snr tweaking, got a Billion 8000AXL at girlfriend's house and it allows snr tweaking.

dmsims · 9 Jun 2018 at 18:06

If you look in the Members market you might see a Billion router for sale

Zirax · 10 Jun 2018 at 15:56

dmsims said:
If you look in the Members market you might see a Billion router for sale

Aha!

Avalon · 11 Jun 2018 at 10:44

Zirax said:
Blimey! Yep not cheap.

Remembered something from the 'old days'. DG834GT, few £ on ebay. Now couple that with dd-wrt / tomato and it might be a winner?

Could be a shout, it's plusnet. Depends on what their routers are like?

The 3rd party firmware for those was DGTeam and they stopped updating/releasing a long, long time ago, you can source really old versions from 3rd party sites, but realistically it’s ancient hardware running near ancient firmware at this stage and you’d be better with something more modern.

pcfarrar · 11 Jun 2018 at 11:27

ISP review just did a brief run down on the best UK VDSL routers for less than £200. It also applies to ADSL too.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.p...routers-for-uk-fttc-fibre-broadband-isps.html