Cutting out the Superhub2

Born_2_Kill_83 · 1 Mar 2017 at 19:02

Moving into a larger house soon and I feel my Virgin superhub 2 is already stretched enough, once a week I have to reboot it due to the wifi freezing up on it, so I want to put it into modem mode and use a different router.

What can you guys recommend for £150/200 quid to give good wifi distribution for streaming/downloading and gaming for 3/4 devices at one given time. I need one with wake on lan as well for access to my gaming PC when I'm out.

DIABLO · 1 Mar 2017 at 19:21

A Ubiquiti ER-X Router (£50) and 2x Ubiquiti AP AC Lite (£85ea) would serve you well.

You might get away with 1 AP if you can mount it centrally and your house does not have brick/block internal walls.

ChrisD. · 2 Mar 2017 at 08:11

As above, however the router won't be as easy to configure in some areas as regular off the shelf consumer kit but it will outperform them.

Born_2_Kill_83 · 2 Mar 2017 at 10:04

Does a Super hub 2 provide POE?

ChrisD. · 2 Mar 2017 at 10:06

I'd highly doubt it.

Born_2_Kill_83 · 2 Mar 2017 at 10:10

Doesn't a Ubiquiti ER-X Router need POE to work?

ChrisD. · 2 Mar 2017 at 10:11

No, you power it off the mains.

The APs need POE, or, use the supplied injectors.

Born_2_Kill_83 · 2 Mar 2017 at 10:13

Sounds like a lot of cabling needs doing to reach each AP, is there an alternative?

ChrisD. · 2 Mar 2017 at 10:18

It's one single cat 5 plus a short injector? You could buy an 8 port switch with 4 POE ports for £50, then you'd have a cable from the router to the switch, then one from the switch to the AP.

DIABLO · 2 Mar 2017 at 10:46

If you're moving into a new house you should be looking to running some network cable anyway before you decorate.

Sure you can get another all in one unit but there is no guarantee that it would be a significant improvement in the overall coverage of the SH.

edscdk · 2 Mar 2017 at 11:04

DIABLO said:
If you're moving into a new house you should be looking to running some network cable anyway before you decorate.

Sure you can get another all in one unit but there is no guarantee that it would be a significant improvement in the overall coverage of the SH.

like what he says.. unless you have the older superhub (with broken wireless) one consumer wireless routers is not going to be much different to another... router + cable + additional (attached to the wire) access point is the best solution (assuming you even need it at the new house)

Born_2_Kill_83 · 2 Mar 2017 at 11:40

Ok thanks guys that's given me something to go at.

neodude · 2 Mar 2017 at 12:24

I personally prefer PfSense to the Ubiquiti for router functionality. But each to their own

Psycho Sonny · 2 Mar 2017 at 14:24

if your moving to a new house then leave your old superhub there and you will be provided a new superhub which will solve your issues for free.

if you then in future want something better then look at the options suggested above.