Need a new router

[snakegb]

Hi all,

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I have fiber broadband with Plusnet, I am experiencing high latency and dropouts, they tell me it's the router,

Need a router that capable of pushing WiFi across a large bungalow plus will handle the massive data flow that my kids use lol

I have a max price of around £200

Looking forward to you advise

 

[kefan77]

who tells you it's the router? what do you have now?

 

[Steampunk]

Hi all,

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I have fiber broadband with Plusnet, I am experiencing high latency and dropouts, they tell me it's the router,

That does sound like a standard copout from and ISP's tech support that wants to get rid of you. You also don't mention if this problem happens only with wi-fi or with wire connections, or what you are using now.

 

[BigT]

Your symptoms match having a saturated upload as well. Do the kids torrent at all? Any way to analyse your bandwidth usage before spending money potentially unnecessarily?

 

[snakegb]

Thanks for the reply's

My kids do use utorrents but i switch it off when am gaming online, i find the online games stop for about 20 secs and the play catchup

the isp says the router cant handle the throughput as i am a high user, i now have the standard plus net router its a sagemcom cs 50001 (the new one in white)

and I am one a wired connection also hangs on youtube.

here is a snapshot of the connection on friday when i last played

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broa...15ea42c981c9d6252132c0bafb6bedb296-29-06-2018

 

[pcfarrar]

Openreach HG612 £20 on ebay
Ubiquiti Edgerouter X £50
UniFi AC LR AP £100

Enable Smart Queue QoS on the Edgerouter and your latency problems should disappear.

 

[DIABLO]

The above is a very solid setup and is pretty much setup and forget.

 

[snakegb]

Openreach HG612 £20 on ebay
Ubiquiti Edgerouter X £50
UniFi AC LR AP £100

Enable Smart Queue QoS on the Edgerouter and your latency problems should disappear.

I have a openreach hg612 in the garage from when i was on BT with a home hub 3

I would like to know if i bought a Ubiquiti Edgerouter and my wired network goes like this

.................................................................../ { netgear switch - TV1 - netgear switch2 - 2 x TV's}
line in - openreach hg612 - Ubiquiti Edgeroute -
...................................................................\ { to 2 pc's}

would that still work with the Qos or would it mess things up

 

[DIABLO]

That would be fine. You forgot the Wifi AP though? The ER-X is a Router/Switch combi unit it has no WiFi function.

 

[flea.rider]

Hi all,

A
I have fiber broadband with Plusnet, I am experiencing high latency and dropouts, they tell me it's the router,

Need a router that capable of pushing WiFi across a large bungalow plus will handle the massive data flow that my kids use lol

I have a max price of around £200

Looking forward to you advise

what meg is your bb ? as I'm going plusnet in the next couple of days ? and hope it's not going to be a horror story

 

[themul]

what meg is your bb ? as I'm going plusnet in the next couple of days ? and hope it's not going to be a horror story

I have been with plusnet for about 8 months and no issues at all to report speeds are 75Mbps download and 18Mbps upload from speedtest.net so pretty decent from a 80/20 package with plusnet.

 

[snakegb]

what meg is your bb ? as I'm going plusnet in the next couple of days ? and hope it's not going to be a horror story

i get 80mb and 19 upload

 

[flea.rider]

got turned on today will give it a few days to settle ..upload is a bit crap atm .. download is slightly lower than ee ..