New Fibre Broadband Router

sir-les-mp · 25 Aug 2015 at 11:56

I have within the last week upgraded to Fibre BB and do not like the rubbish router Plusnet sent me.

What i need from the router is
4 gigabit Lan ports
Wifi Wireless n (has to be a strong signal due to house construction of Solid Walls)
The ability to manage the connections of my kids wifi devices between certain times of the day with rules i can setup for the school week and a seperate one for the weekend. i.e. enable rules and forget about them

bremen1874 · 25 Aug 2015 at 12:40

The Asus RT-N66U is worth a look. It's now quite an old model, but still okay. There are also some more recent Asus models what offer Wireless-AC.

KIA · 25 Aug 2015 at 12:43

Integrated VDSL2 modem required?
Budget?

sir-les-mp · 25 Aug 2015 at 13:00

I have the new bt openreach modem ( not sure how good it is)
budget wise im looking to get one for as little money as humanly possible if i had to put a max limit on it id say £100

booyaka · 25 Aug 2015 at 13:24

TD-W9980

Does sky fibre/ADSL etc - 4 gigabit ports, wireless N, 2.4 and 5ghz. You can set times/limits/mac address etc for each connecting device - £60.

Does me great for a busy house etc

sir-les-mp · 25 Aug 2015 at 13:52

TP-Link Archer AC750 WiFi Dual Band Gigabit ADSL2+ Modem Router (Archer D2)

I take it this is the updated version of said router

bremen1874 · 25 Aug 2015 at 14:22

There are significant differences between those two routers. E.g. the TD-W9980 has an internal VDSL2 modem, the D2 hasn't.

Trojan Horse · 25 Aug 2015 at 15:41

sir-les-mp · 25 Aug 2015 at 20:36

bremen1874 said:
There are significant differences between those two routers. E.g. the TD-W9980 has an internal VDSL2 modem, the D2 hasn't.

DoH!! just goes to show you shouldn't do retail research while your tired

sir-les-mp · 26 Aug 2015 at 12:16

Ive spied this ASUS DSL-N66U Dual-Band Wireless-N 900 VDSL/ADSL Modem Gigabit Router advertised on a competing website for £80 wont post link.
Looking at it it would appear to be the same as the Asus RT-N66U with the addition of an inbuilt adsl/Vdsl modem
bonus is they appear to have it in stock so if purchased i could have it within a few days.
Out of this one ASUS DSL-N66U Dual-Band Wireless-N 900 VDSL/ADSL Modem Gigabit Router and this one TP-Link N600 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit VDSL2/ADSL2+ Modem Router (TD-W9980)
which would you say was the better router, remmbering that i wish to be able to switch off either certain wifi connections or devices automatically by time of day and day of the week.

bledd · 26 Aug 2015 at 13:01

Look at the Billion 8800 series, or Draytek

Glanza · 26 Aug 2015 at 13:22

Draytek 2860

sir-les-mp · 26 Aug 2015 at 19:31

bledd. said:
Look at the Billion 8800 series, or Draytek

Glanza said:
Draytek 2860

Sorry but both of these brands are well out of my price range.
i did mention in an earlier post that my max budget was upto £100.

booyaka · 27 Aug 2015 at 09:22

Only speaking from personal experience and can't fault my TD-W9980 - does what you want it to do

sir-les-mp · 27 Aug 2015 at 12:54

Well after a lot of youtube vids etc i liked the admin options of the Asus router modem and have plumbed for ASUS DSL-N66U Dual-Band Wireless-N 900 VDSL/ADSL Modem Gigabit Router.

i have also found and ordered a RJ-11 to RJ-45 Cat5e cable as well

Now all i need is for Plusnet to pull their finger out sort the fault on thier system which is limiting my speed to 21Mb

have bt reset the SNR values back to normal and allow the line to find its own stable rate rather then the Artificially dropped rate im getting at present.
So far ive lost 10Mb from the IP config of the line due to i presume BT increasing the value of the SNR of the line believing the line to be unstable due to a fault at Plusnet

Quartz · 27 Aug 2015 at 13:05

sir-les-mp said:
Now all i need is for Plusnet to pull their finger out sort the fault on thier system which is limiting my speed to 21Mb

It can take 3 days for the rate to stabilise. Be patient.

sir-les-mp · 27 Aug 2015 at 13:19

Quartz said:
It can take 3 days for the rate to stabilise. Be patient.

My rate was 60Mb down and 15Mb up stable for 4 days prior to the fault occuring.
Accidentally switching off the power supply to your computer system should not result in such a dramtic loss of bandwidth.
also when using the BT Tester and doing Test 3 using thier login details the speeds go to just a few Mb under the current ip config of the line which now sits at 52.18 Mb down and approx 2Mb up