Best router for.....
- Thread starter spluff
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If you're bothered about chipset matching (as I take it from you mentioning your cab type you may well be) then HG612 + a decent router + a centrally located AP will give the best results. Routers rarely tend to be located in optimum positions for coverage and more often or not end up shoved next to the master socket in the hall/entrance.
Ok cheers 
a. good wireless distance
b. Can slow down internet traffic on certain devices
c. Logging off activity (pings would be great)
d. stable and reliable
Does it tick all those points?
Anyone on here got any experience of it in a home environment?
a. good wireless distance
b. Can slow down internet traffic on certain devices
c. Logging off activity (pings would be great)
d. stable and reliable
Does it tick all those points?
Anyone on here got any experience of it in a home environment?
Yes it ticks all of those points, I used one at home for a while and didn't have any issues, I did return it however because I felt it wasn't worth the extra £130 or whatever it was to upgrade my RT-N66U so I reverted. Your mileage may vary...
Ok cheers
a. good wireless distance
b. Can slow down internet traffic on certain devices
c. Logging off activity (pings would be great)
d. stable and reliable
Does it tick all those points?
Anyone on here got any experience of it in a home environment?
Just don't tell it that it's in a home environment or it'll get a complex. The business class and advanced routing features of a decade ago are now common place in £30 home routers, being aimed at business usually means it's going to have a decent hardware design, a wealth of config options to suit a much wider and varied deployment and support is generally supposed to be better, with Draytek you tend to get that.
As to the chip-set matching it's suggested though i've not seen anything i'd call definitive proof that matching your modem chip set to your cab *may* yield better results, part of this comes from ye-olde ADSL days where depending on the modem chip set used and the line stats you could see a significant difference, the anecdotal evidence is that the slight differences may exist between using a chip set from the same OEM as the cab in terms of sync speed.
My personal choice was:
ECI /r - I can reboot/flash/tweak my router as much as I want with zero chance it'll impact my connection profile, it'll even run DDWRT if required.
AC56U - I looked at the AC68U/AC86U which share the same CPU (AC86U is running it at 1Ghz vs 800Mhz), I needed 3rd party firmware support so an all in ove wasn't an option and with my next choice wifi speed wasn't a driver for me.
2 x UnifiAP's - One upstairs, one downstairs, seamless hand-off works perfectly and coverage is fantastic.
The total cost of doing this came in at under £130, that's about what an AC87U would have cost me, but I have a lot more control and flexibility - if I want to upgrade wifi in the future or replace the connection type with cable or G.Fast etc. then I don't need to replace an all in one device and start again. Also choosing a modem based solution allowed me to hide it out the way and then just run RJ45 to where I waned the router to be.