finally fed up of the bt home hub

[adolf hamster]

any suggestions for a router that has reliable wireless signal that doesnt require you to manually change the channel because the three channels employed by the automatic 'reccomended' system are all taken by the 20 other bt hubs in the area?


tl:dr
on bt infinity, want reliable wireless router, budget of whatever it takes to get something that'll be good for the next few years.

 

[beachBOYken]

Get yourself an Asus router, I have an n66u which replaced my vm supercrud router, I just have that in modem mode now.

You can install some great custom firmware on these like merlins firmware.

I can only speak for the n66u but Im sure all of the top spec asus routers are brilliant.

You might want to confirm with other bt users though that asus routers and the likes are fine with BT.

 

[Tephnos]

Using AC68U, can confirm is fine. Make sure you pick up the white modem box from BT as well to run with it, the ASUS routers work better as standalones and not DSL modems too.

Check what cab you're on and grab the modem to match with it, whether that is ECI or Huawei.

 

[bremen1874]

If you really do have 20 other routers in the area then 2.4GHz is going to be a nightmare with any router. With only three channels to choose from you're always to be clashing with your neighbours.

Have you tried moving everything onto 5GHz?

 

[adolf hamster]

the 'automatic' selection only used 1, 6 or 11. i've been manually swapping between channels 4&5 to keep away from the guaranteed interferance from the other hubs, but one of the other ones from sky or virgin must use those channels because every couple of hours i need to change it or my internet goes from 50 to 2 mbps on the wifi whilst remaining solid on the lan.

we have the white openreach modem, which afaik you have to use for the fibre optic making the router itself basically a glorified switch with wifi capability.

we're not experiencing issues with the internet itself, its almost always fine when i check it on my main rig via ethernet, it's just wifi thats the bother.

i'll take a look at the asus, i'm in need of a new monitor so ocuk will be getting a larger chunk of this months paycheck than i'd originally planned lol.

 

[bremen1874]

You should stick to channels 1, 6 or 11 as they're the only ones that don't overlap.

Channels 4 & 5 will overlap with people on channels 1 and 6 increasing the amount of interference you receive and also inflict.

There are plenty of articles out there that explain why 1, 6 and 11 should be used.

 

[adolf hamster]

You should stick to channels 1, 6 or 11 as they're the only ones that don't overlap.

Channels 4 & 5 will overlap with people on channels 1 and 6 increasing the amount of interference you receive and also inflict.

There are plenty of articles out there that explain why 1, 6 and 11 should be used.

as in, according to google at least, the home hub 3's automatic channel selector would only ever choose from 1,6 or 11, basically meaning you'd always get conflict if there's more than 3 in the area.

i had horrible performance until i started using channels 4 and 5, now any time i go to use the device i'll get horrible speeds until changing from whatever one i'm on to the other, then speeds go up to the full 50mbps.

looking at the netgear d6400 simply because it's in stock at the minute any reason in partivular to avoid that? i'm imagining any hub over about a tenner probably is a big improvement over what i'm currently using.

 

[beachBOYken]

I use inssider to check WiFi channels in range and then manually select whichever channel out of 1,6 or 11 which is least used. I don't use the automatic setting.

 

[Christmas themed thank]

Are you using the Home Hub as a modem and router or just a router?

 

[adolf hamster]

Its just being used as a router, we have the white openreach box as the modem because we're on fibre.

I havent tried any apps to tell me network coverage, but i did try every channel with speedtest and channels 4 and 5 were the only 2 would give me more than 2mbps out of the 50 it should be.

Only thing is something does settle on those channels every couple of hours, and i have to switch to the other to recover speeds.

Theres no point in me using 1,6 or 11, because they all have guaranteed interferance from all the other hubs in the area.