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Nitefly

Nitefly

Nitefly

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Hi - can anyone recommend me a decent, relatively inexpensive (ideally not more than £100) router? I only use WiFi in a small house with two people.

My virgin router has, for the last two years, been emitting quiet high pitched noises and it’s now driving me loopy - I CBA with having to call / deal with Virgin so I’m looking to swap something in, particularly if it will improve my internets (which is ~30-50MB per second IIRC).

I’m also using power bricks in the house if that’s relevant.

Many thanks in advance :)
 
Personally, I would tend to go for an ASUS router - the ASUS RT-N66U @ £108 (or less if you shop around) would be my recomendation.

I have this one myself for a few years now - and it's been faultless, once set up correctly.
 
I also agree with asus routers they are brilliant with stacks of functions and custom firmware if you really want to mess about. Although i have no idea if they do one for VM connections that you wont need to use the vm modem with. Others will have this knowledge. I juat have very little experience with vm
 
If it's Virgin cable then you can't replace their router.

You can put it into modem mode and add your own router to it, but that isn't going to help with it squealing.
 
bremen1874 said:
If it's Virgin cable then you can't replace their router.

You can put it into modem mode and add your own router to it, but that isn't going to help with it squealing.
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Yup

Just report it to Virgin, they'll probably just send you a new one.

Is it the PSU brick or the router that's has the noise?
 
As above, without the MAC being on VM’s systems it won’t be provisioned, they won’t allow non VM supplied equipment to be reg’d or even consider requests to provision from a 3rd party (breach of ToS). Save yourself ‘up to £100’ and make a phone call - it really isn’t that difficult.
 
If you're with Virgin, you will still have to use their hub anyway in modem-mode. As any router you buy will be just that, a router. You still need Virgin's box to be the modem so will suffer the noise issue mentioned.

Save yourself a few quid, ring up Virgin and moan, get the new model for free! :)
 
Well, I have a TP-Link TL-WR740N router but I have problems with it.
Some websites like ok.ru doesn't open with the router, on the cable it works ok.
Also, the router adds some latencies (ping goes up from 1ms on the cable to 4-5ms with the router) and bandwidth reductions.

Are TP-Link routers reliable and what would you recommend for a tight budget, like 30-40 pounds maybe?
Is it worth to go for an AC router of lower class, or is it better to go for a higher-end N router?
How does their hardware influence the experience, which choice is better?
Should I buy an Asus router?

edit:
Have just measured the speed via speedtest.net and on the cable it is:





The TL-WR740N reduces these speeds by as much as 50% :( :eek:
How to solve this problem, please?
 
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