Router and access point

[ProStreet]

Hi all

I am finally getting VM after over 2 years of waiting for them to install it...

Opted for the 1 gigabit VM business broadband. It comes with a Hitron Chita router which I'm keen to replace.

I live in a small ish bungalow with a cabin at the back of the garden.

I would like a router with wifi 6 or wifi 6e for the house and then was thinking of an ethernet cable to the cabin and then using a wireless access point.

What do you guys recommend and do you think this is the best way? Thought of mesh but the speed in the cabin may not be great at that range

 

[ProStreet]

Can you replace the Hitron router on VM Business? I vaguely recall the need for GRE tunnels and other shenanigans - is this transplantable onto different CPE?

Thanks all for the comments.

I asked them if I could replace it for the residential router as the Hitron doesn't have a 2.5gbps port and the max speed on the Gig1 plan is 1.1gbps so you're losing 100mb. The new superhub 5 has a 2.5gbps but they said they couldn't give that.

I'm thinking to buy a wifi 6 ax6600 for the house and then wire up the cabin and get a similar speed wireless access point.

 

[ProStreet]

Wow that thing is ghastly. Wire in a proper access point centrally, you won’t regret it. Consumer routers are nearly always placed in the worst position and it doesn’t matter if they have 300 antennas, they’re still in the worst position and bound by the laws of physics and radio.

Which one would you recommend? I would like to utilise the 1gigabit speed as much as possible