ISP provider Fibre router modems any good?

Golf1.6

Golf1.6

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Looking at a toss up between plusnet, bt & sky.

All more or less same price wise. So I'm indifferent to them. But an ISP that provides a fully kitted router modem which is fairly robust and feature packed would steal the deal.

requirements:
* up to 10 concurrent wifi device access
* ability to easily assign static local IP address for ethernet devices like voip fone, desktop pc
* Good port management controls.
* Bandwidth prioritisation for certain devices (need the Voip phone to have top priority)


Also, what is this home hub? have to be honest looks like an impressive bit of kit. But is it all it's cracked out to be?
 
The sky router has such bad wifi that they are currently dishing out free extenders so it's really not that great.
 
Ive had 3 versions of BT Homehubs and all were flakey. But I think all the features are there (not sure about bandwidth priority) and I think the new one has 5ghz and 2.4ghz range IRRC.
 
The problem with going with Sky is that you need to mess around to retrieve your username and password to use your own router, and even then you're violating your T&Cs (currently they don't enforce this).

With pretty much any other ISP you can use whatever router you like. The Home Hub 5 is good for an ISP-supplied router, but your requirements would be better suited to one of the Asus models anyway I'd have thought.
 
meandu229 said:
Ive had 3 versions of BT Homehubs and all were flakey. But I think all the features are there (not sure about bandwidth priority) and I think the new one has 5ghz and 2.4ghz range IRRC.
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I cannot specify a DNS in my HH5 which I could in my old Sky router, which means I'm currently stuck on UK Netflix on my Roku until I get another router. :mad:
 
Thanks, I was fearing nobody would reply to this thread. Had 100 views, around 3 days without replies and then woosh 5 replies.

As I expected all ISp routers are rubbish. I thought the BT home hub might be a premium one but it looks like it's just a standard low end netgear one?

I will try the asus. I looked up the review on the plusnet router online and saw that it has 2/5 stars on a well known site. Pointint to how awful it is. I believe it's a thompson one.
 
Caged said:
The problem with going with Sky is that you need to mess around to retrieve your username and password to use your own router, and even then you're violating your T&Cs (currently they don't enforce this).

With pretty much any other ISP you can use whatever router you like. The Home Hub 5 is good for an ISP-supplied router, but your requirements would be better suited to one of the Asus models anyway I'd have thought.
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Sky have now removed that from the T&C due to the switch over of O2 and Be customers
 
Golf1.6 said:
Quick question. So using your own router is a problem?

I will call and find out with plusnet - most likely ISP I'm going with.
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Plusnet will allow you to use your own router with their service (in the hardware section when you're configuring your package you can opt not to have the router they supply be sent).
 
deadite66 said:
didn't want to have to pay extra for a modem i won't use.
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Zen don't require you to use any specific modem or router, they are not bothered what you use. But Openreach provide the modem for FTTC anyway, all you need is the router of your choice.
 
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