Looking for new router

UberGinge

UberGinge

UberGinge

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Morning all,

My router at home is being a bit of a pain as of late. It's a Netgear N750 and it's decided that if I try to do anything remotely "intense" over the wi-fi it will reboot the entire router.

My home connection is gigabit fibre being presented over ethernet (via Cat 6) and more or less everything is connected via ethernet (8 port switch plugged into one port on the router), only the Wii U and phone/guest laptops connect via wi-fi.

I do stream out Plex to around 4 people and do a fair bit of gaming, including the hosting of servers (mostly Minecraft these days).

No real budget in mind, just want whats best for me :)
 
UberGinge said:
Morning all,

My router at home is being a bit of a pain as of late. It's a Netgear N750 and it's decided that if I try to do anything remotely "intense" over the wi-fi it will reboot the entire router.

My home connection is gigabit fibre being presented over ethernet (via Cat 6) and more or less everything is connected via ethernet (8 port switch plugged into one port on the router), only the Wii U and phone/guest laptops connect via wi-fi.

I do stream out Plex to around 4 people and do a fair bit of gaming, including the hosting of servers (mostly Minecraft these days).

No real budget in mind, just want whats best for me :)
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Are you wanting a "Plug and play" solution or will you be tinkering around with it?

Edit: Gigabit in Jersey?!
 
I'm about to get FTTP (so 330/30, which will hopefully go up over the next few years) and looking at getting the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite. Its had decent reviews and seems to over pretty good performance along with loads more powerful options than standard routers will have
 
UberGinge said:
I'm game for tinkering with it :)

And yeah, not that expensive either! I'm paying £54/m for 1000/100 and no cap :)
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I'm on a 100/20 Profile and using an Ubiquiti Edge Router Lite 3. Handles 100/20 with ease. I was tempted by the 1000/100 service but.....100/20 is far far plenty enough for me as it.

The EdgeRouter Lite will do near wirespeed on PPPoE with a MODEST NAT/Firewall configuration. If you start adding lots and lots of other workload you are going to be hammering the CPU. I think most benchmarks peg it at around 800-900Mbit/Sec down although actual mileage may vary. The ERL3 represents some of the best bang for buck in it's target market. You will need to have a solid grasp of networking and be willing to use some CLI for some features (OpenVPN etc) as well as extending Wireless out with separate APs (which is preferable IMO anyway) It's based on the Vyatta OS so while EdgeRouter guides are plenty, MOST Vyatta guides also apply with some tweaks.

If you do get an ERL....DO NOT USE BRIDGING MODE on your 2 available local eth ports. It uses a software switch to achieve the bridge and destroys your throughput. You will not have a need however as you have a switch already.

Remember, for single client throughout you will need disk drives fast enough.


When your 1000/100 service is up and running can you do me a favour? Tell me what your ONT Internet port (Port 1 iirc) negotiates at. Mine negotiates at 100Mbit, which is fine on my 100/20 Mbit service. I assume that when you get a Gigabit profile they remotely manage the ONT and change the negotiation to Gigabit, otherwise you would not get more than 100Mbit!
 
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Sin_Chase said:
I'm on a 100/20 Profile and using an Ubiquiti Edge Router Lite 3. Handles 100/20 with ease. I was tempted by the 1000/100 service but.....100/20 is far far plenty enough for me as it.

The EdgeRouter Lite will do near wirespeed on PPPoE with a MODEST NAT/Firewall configuration. If you start adding lots and lots of other workload you are going to be hammering the CPU. I think most benchmarks peg it at around 800-900Mbit/Sec down although actual mileage may vary. The ERL3 represents some of the best bang for buck in it's target market. You will need to have a solid grasp of networking and be willing to use some CLI for some features (OpenVPN etc) as well as extending Wireless out with separate APs (which is preferable IMO anyway) It's based on the Vyatta OS so while EdgeRouter guides are plenty, MOST Vyatta guides also apply with some tweaks.

If you do get an ERL....DO NOT USE BRIDGING MODE on your 2 available local eth ports. It uses a software switch to achieve the bridge and destroys your throughput. You will not have a need however as you have a switch already.

Remember, for single client throughout you will need disk drives fast enough.


When your 1000/100 service is up and running can you do me a favour? Tell me what your ONT Internet port (Port 1 iirc) negotiates at. Mine negotiates at 100Mbit, which is fine on my 100/20 Mbit service. I assume that when you get a Gigabit profile they remotely manage the ONT and change the negotiation to Gigabit, otherwise you would not get more than 100Mbit!
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Sounds reasonable. Any suggestions on where to obtain one over here? Shame they won't do a 100/100, it's really the upload that I mostly use!
 
Update: The kit has all arrived, settled with the Edge Lite and a UniFi AP to bolt onto that. Hopefully will have it up and running tonight, so will update once it's all setup!
 
Well, this is mind bending. I thought I knew enough about networking to get by, but it seems I'm sorely mistaken!

EDIT: Got it up and running now, sans the wireless. So far I can't get it to breach 120 Mb/s on speedtest.net so that's a thing.

Double edit: Enabled hardware offloading on pppoe and we're now up to 240 Mb/s!

UPDATE: We hit 280 Mb/s!
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Gonna tweak it a bit more, see if I can get it closer to the 700 Mb/s I get with ye olde Netgear

SUPER UPDATE:

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YEAH BOI
 
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