Hi All,
Having had virgin a good few years ago now, the speeds were good, but wifi coverage in the house was rubbish. So i got rid! Then i read that the superhub was terrible! We had since moved to BT and their mesh system since the kids kept moaning about the wifi in the house (i'm sure i'm not the only one who has this problem!) but the mesh discs haven't been the solution i had hoped for, and infact has been worse than virgin (and double the price!) so i have cancelled BT and decieded to move back to virgin but get my own router.
I know there is some fairly advanced solutions on the market and for all budgets, but in my house (3 bed semi - which my IT department said i shouldn't need mesh discs to get a decent wifi signal, but a decent router!), i have running:
Old PC as a plex media server
PS4 and Xbox
Another PC for the kids
Personal laptop and work laptop
TV with various streaming services
mobile phones etc
so we need a decent wifi signal, but nothing super weapons grade. Ive been looking at the Netgear Nighthawk R7000 and this seems to tick all the boxes:
Easy parental control access
Has its own app
can connect a USB drive for cloud storage
Decent round the house wifi signal (hopefully and judging by some reviews, transforms the virgin signal in comparison to what you get with the superhub)
and can be picked up for around £50 second hand.
My question to those with much more knowledge than me is, is there anything better out there for roughly the same price or a little more?
Thank you
Having had virgin a good few years ago now, the speeds were good, but wifi coverage in the house was rubbish. So i got rid! Then i read that the superhub was terrible! We had since moved to BT and their mesh system since the kids kept moaning about the wifi in the house (i'm sure i'm not the only one who has this problem!) but the mesh discs haven't been the solution i had hoped for, and infact has been worse than virgin (and double the price!) so i have cancelled BT and decieded to move back to virgin but get my own router.
I know there is some fairly advanced solutions on the market and for all budgets, but in my house (3 bed semi - which my IT department said i shouldn't need mesh discs to get a decent wifi signal, but a decent router!), i have running:
Old PC as a plex media server
PS4 and Xbox
Another PC for the kids
Personal laptop and work laptop
TV with various streaming services
mobile phones etc
so we need a decent wifi signal, but nothing super weapons grade. Ive been looking at the Netgear Nighthawk R7000 and this seems to tick all the boxes:
Easy parental control access
Has its own app
can connect a USB drive for cloud storage
Decent round the house wifi signal (hopefully and judging by some reviews, transforms the virgin signal in comparison to what you get with the superhub)
and can be picked up for around £50 second hand.
My question to those with much more knowledge than me is, is there anything better out there for roughly the same price or a little more?
Thank you