Sky Replacement Router

Cyanide · 26 Jan 2016 at 16:03

Hi,

I'm looking at switching my services back to Sky from BT as BT have messed me around a lot over the last few weeks (non-broadband related but the best deals all come if you take the full package).

I've never been hugely impressed with BT's Home Hub and from what I gather Sky's is even worse (not even Gigabit! :eek:

) so if I do switch I'd want to get a replacement.

Any suggestions on something with Gigabit ports and half-decent wifi? Only got a TV and phones connected via Wi-fi and the TV's about 3m away in the next room (still found the BT HH5 drops out too often though).

Thanks!

Cyanide · 26 Jan 2016 at 16:59

KIA said:
ADSLx or VDSL2 (FTTC)?

VDSL2, on Infinity2 at the moment getting ~72mb

Cyanide · 26 Jan 2016 at 20:35

Avalon said:
The speed of the router's LAN ports makes zero difference if you use a gigabit switch, the connection won't ever exceed 100mbit on that hardware (technical limit of VDSL spec) so it's only LAN based transfers that would suffer.

I've got a fileserver and a couple of other bits wired in to a network that I do a fair bit of transferring between so running at 1/10 my current speed would suck. A lot.

Cyanide · 27 Jan 2016 at 10:19

mick4545 said:
Sky will soon be releasing a new router for their Q system. If you could hold on a while they may supply that one free to new customers.

Only 2 ethernet ports and no doubt it'll cost the earth