Help me upgrade from the **** stock router box thing.

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I don't know much about networking gear.

I am currently using the plusnet hub one which is garbage.

I am looking to upgrade as I will soon be living with 3 others (all with laptops and phones). I will also be switching to a faster ISP in a month or so (probably a 300/350Mbit package).

I would like to spend less than £100, but I don't know what I need. I think if I buy a router, I need a separate modem. I think that the VM default routers can do modem only whereas the plusnet one can't.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

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Define 'garbage' please. What's the problem you're having?

If it's crappy wifi then a new router likely isn't the best option.

It's crappy wifi, but when there is a lot of wifi things happening the wired experience suffers a lot too. Stood next to the thing, transferring files from my desktop PC on 5Ghz tops out around 20MB/s. Move about 4m away and you're lucky to get 10MB/s. If the 5Ghz will even connect.

It's also very feature light, I remember having a basic asus router that would show me the network throughput and lots of other cool info, as well as being able to setup a 3rd party DNS.

It's a basic thing and my needs have grown beyond it's capabilities.

 

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@BigT I feel a little bit bad cause you've obviously put some time and thought into possible solutions and I've failed to mention an important point.

I live in a small flat. It's literally impossible to be more than about 6m from the router, which I have centred in the hallway.