CityFibre router suggestions

OverDrive · Friday at 12:14

Hi everyone, I am looking to buy a router to use on City Fibre. I am planning on using IDNet at the moment. I would really aprecate some suggestions/advice.

I would like it to have Wi-Fi 7, a 2.5Gbps WAN port and at least 1x 2.5Gbps LAN port for my PC.

Planning on keeping it for a few years, so ideally it will still have a few years of firmware support to come from the manufacturer. I would like a fairly decent Wi-Fi range on it as it needs to be able to provide signal to a 4 bedroom house. My gaming PC is in the office room on the ground floor and the ONT and router will be in there. I will connect my PC via ethernet of course. Unfortunately the router will be near a side wall rather than central in the house. However, as long as I can get around 150-250mbps to the upstairs rooms as I do now with the Virgin Media hub 5 it will be fine. I am not too worried about mesh capability.

I am happy to spend up to around £250, however any good value routers at lower prices would be very welcome too.

I have been looking at the ASUS RT-BE92U as a starting point. I might be really off the mark with this as I am no router expert.

Thank you

ChrisD. · Friday at 12:27

UniFi Cloud Gateway Max and a UniFi Access Point.

OverDrive said:
ASUS

Swearing is not allowed here.

MrRockliffe · Friday at 12:32

ChrisD. said:
UniFi Cloud Gateway Max and a UniFi Access Point.

Swearing is not allowed here.

Hijacking this thread a little, but I’ve been thinking about the same setup.

How would one place the UniFi AP? Aren’t they designed to be ceiling mounted? As this wouldn’t be possible for me.

ChrisD. · Friday at 12:34

MrRockliffe said:
How would one place the UniFi AP? Aren’t they designed to be ceiling mounted?

You can get wall mounted ones, but ideally you mount them on the ceiling in the upstairs landing powered by a switch in the loft (or via POE injectors), unless you live in a mansion or have solid brick walls that should be fine for all house coverage.

MrRockliffe · Friday at 12:41

ChrisD. said:
You can get wall mounted ones, but ideally you mount them on the ceiling in the upstairs landing powered by a switch in the loft (or via POE injectors), unless you live in a mansion or have solid brick walls that should be fine for all house coverage.

Won’t be able to get a cable into the loft unfortunately, which is my challenge.

The Alien worked so well for me as it could be placed on a table. I was hoping for an updated version but haven’t seen anything.

ChrisD. · Friday at 12:50

MrRockliffe said:
The Alien worked so well for me as it could be placed on a table. I was hoping for an updated version but haven’t seen anything.

Not sure but I think they have deprecated that line.

UniFi have wall mount options which you could consider.

MrRockliffe · Friday at 12:52

ChrisD. said:
Not sure but I think they have deprecated that line.

UniFi have wall mount options which you could consider.

They’re also awkward as the router is centrally located, so ideally I’d want something which has an omni directional radiation pattern

ChrisD. · Friday at 12:55

You could use U6-Mesh - they are indoor or outdoor. Not sure if they do a newer version yet which support WiFi 7.

OverDrive · Friday at 16:12

ChrisD. said:
Swearing is not allowed here.

I thought they made good routers?

I will look at the Ubiquiti options too. I recall looking at the Dream Machine a few years back.

ChrisD. · Friday at 16:42

OverDrive said:
I thought they made good routers?

They're a company who don't care about customers, shown by their historic ignorance of security issues and more recent RMA issues.

OverDrive · Friday at 16:49

ChrisD. said:
They're a company who don't care about customers, shown by their historic ignorance of security issues and more recent RMA issues.

I had not heard about this. Thanks for the heads up.