Hi all, Just upgraded from Virgin 350 to the Gig 1. When hard wired i am getting around 930 mbps but wireless its about 450 and that's with the Hub 4 right next to me. However my son and girlfriend have just moved in and we have turned the spare bedroom into an office/gaming ( 2 pc's) room for them and the wifi speeds have not really improved in that room.
After reading comments about the Hub 4 we have decided to get a router and put the Hub 4 in modem mode and see if that improves things. So my question is can anyone recommend a router for around £150 that will play nicely with the Hub 4.
Thanks
Performance difference between hub 4 in modem mode and router mode is negligible, no real benefit unless you are managing self hosted servers etc, that alone won't improve anything.
Unfortunately it doesn't help improve gaming latency at all, VM sucks here, good bandwidth, bad latency.
Depending on walls between the two rooms these might work for you, they do for me.
https://consumer.huawei.com/uk/routers/ax3-mesh-kit/buy/
I have these and they allow me to wifi connect between upstairs and down stair opposite ends of the house at 1Gb, now these are limited devices with poor firmware and functionality but they are cheap, note this is not a recommendation as such, in that I would buy better if I had the dough for something fancier but these were £30 each at one point and hard to beat for basic functionality.
Example speeds from my home setup can be seem
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Limitations
It is Wifi AP to Wifi AP is where you get full speed, so wired devices to the 4 ports on the Wifi AP see max speed, wifi devices coming off the remote wifi mesh connected AP will see ~ half speed due to having no back haul capacity or an appropriate number of antennae's and having to repeat the wifi signal but if you don't have a lot of clients they can work well. ( I run about 10 clients on each and have had no issues)
I use them on my Hub4, I just disable wifi on the hub4 and everything in the house comes off of the Mesh, I don't bother with modem mode, in tests there was no performance benefit and double NAT cause me no gaming issues, with respect to the AX3 I just Put them in 160Mhz mode and run all my machines wired and wireless on the Ax3s network.
I use mine with both wired and wireless backhaul
One is connected downstaiirs to the modem serving downstairs machines via its on board hub and office switch, another AX3 is wired to it in a different room, the upstairs office/games rooom AX3 is purely connected via wifi and the upstairs machines connected to that are wired for max performance, they work really well, as mentioned upstairs machines get full 1Gb speeds to NAS, I only have 660Mb broadband, machines upstairs get full speed, of course with a lot of traffic it will drop, but that's probably true of any device even with more antenna.
Their range is not spectacular for 5Ghz but I do get great coverage due to having mesh multiples I have 4, 2 wired, 2 wifi, the wifi connected one in my kitchen is the worst performer, only netting me ~150Mb over wifi repeating from the front room, but if you consider it replaced a Sky repeater/booster minis setup in same location that could barely connect half that time and when it did barely managed 10-30Mb that is actually outstanding as the kitchen is an extension outside the exterior wall which acts as a Wifi block all.
Some suggest that a high end router would have better coverage, I can't confirm that.
