Hyperoptic with an Asus Router

[im4gine3]

Hi there guys,

I've been pondering around the forums for a long while but never actually signed up, so please be nice.

I have been wondering whether anyone has tried using their own router to access Hyperoptic and not bridge the routers together as they prefer on their website?

I know people have in the past (more than a couple years ago after searching on Google) but since they have changed their routers etc, i'm not sure whether they have limited to what you can do.

I have ordered the 1gig line and will be using an Asus RT AC87U router. Would there be any additional settings i would need or would it just be plug and play?

 

[Felon]

Hyperoptic is just Ethernet so any standard Ethernet router will work (I use a netgear one) with my 1gb hyperoptic, you don't need to do anything special just make sure you get one that can do 1gbps of WAN routing throughput,

 

[im4gine3]

Hyperoptic were persitent in trying to get you to use their router but after a lot of persuading they gave up.

It wasn't a simple plug and play, they had to give me the appropriate ip details for the non-standard router to work.. plus after a bit of testing.. confirmed the HO router is crap in terms of speeds.

Asus router with latest merlin build:

i assume the upload will increase as its still within its cooldown period.

 

[KIA]

The upload speed should be close to gigabit speeds from the get go, this isn't a DSL product.

Try a different speedtest.net server.

 

[im4gine3]

unfortunately tried different servers.. and the upload still lagging at around 200mb/s

Also tried different firmware builds.. both by Asus and Merlin.. no real change

 

[KIA]

How does Hyperoptic's router perform?

 

[im4gine]

even worse with the original router.. everything has been disabled to help reduce the overhead and this is the speed i get on speedtest (tested about 4 servers all with similar speeds)