Fttp looking for a quality router

Captain Carling · 20 May 2016 at 18:46

I have just moved into a new house that has fttp and I have got 200meg download speeds and a bt hh5.
I'm wanting to ditch that and get myself a top notch router that has a good range.
Anyone point me in the right direction please?

bremen1874 · 20 May 2016 at 23:39

Do you want a new router, or just better wireless?

Battery! · 21 May 2016 at 00:17

I find the HH5 to be pretty good, I just change to a TP link C9 to stop the connection sharing with BT.

Captain Carling · 21 May 2016 at 08:01

I am finding that the wifi drops to very slow speeds and needs to be rebooted, and the range isn't very good. So I do feel like a new router is the only option

Caged · 21 May 2016 at 11:49

Can you give us a floor plan or at least an idea of the size of your house? If a Home Hub 5 is struggling for range then you're unlikely to fix it just by changing the router.

Battery! · 21 May 2016 at 17:28

Captain Carling said:
I am finding that the wifi drops to very slow speeds and needs to be rebooted, and the range isn't very good. So I do feel like a new router is the only option

I found the opposite, complete coverage, great speeds and totally stable.

I'm in a new build 4 bedroom house.

bledd · 21 May 2016 at 18:00

Ubiquiti Edgerouter Lite + 5/8/16/24 port switch + Ubiquiti Unifi AP AC Pro

wasc · 22 May 2016 at 16:17

Captain Carling said:
I have just moved into a new house that has fttp and I have got 200meg download speeds and a bt hh5.
I'm wanting to ditch that and get myself a top notch router that has a good range.
Anyone point me in the right direction please?

I'm in the same boat as you - FTTP, I went for 300Mb in the end.

To be honest, I found the HH5 gave a pretty good wifi signal - I just didn't like it very much so I put in an ASUS RT-88U.

In all honesty, the signal is better than the HH5 but not by much - if your HH5 is struggling, I think you would need to go down the 2 wap route possibly.