What router please (VM)

[D.Roberts]

Hi all I am looking to get a new router as the one I have now is totaly terrible (rather old).
Belkin N750DB (custom FW)

Any way when I am downloading games (VIA STEAM ETC) it will die I have to turn it off and back on again.
I have no idea why when it gets over loaded it shuts down but it does...

plus the Wifi is terrible now so basically time to upgrade.
Budget is really no more that £100 I mean I could go more but then I may as well get me a cheap PC and run PFsense and have an all singing and dancing router (not removed this option neither TBH).

I was looking at the Asus routers these

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus-rt-ac59u-ac1500-dual-band-wifi-router-nw-11b-as.html

or

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...0-wifi-with-4-port-gigabit-lan-nw-10n-as.html.

but still not sure.

I use a fair few Wireless devices so MU-MIMO is a must I assume which would explain why my current router runs like crap when a few of us are streaming or what ever?

Any way sorry for the long post any help would be awesome...

thanks in advance

 

[WJA96]

MuMIMO won’t necessarily help depending on the clients that are connecting.

I don’t do ASUS for routers. You’re generally paying for flashing gee-gaws and antennae that either aren’t connected to anything or if they are connected, they don’t do anything.

I like Mikrotik. hAP AC should do what you want within budget. And if you don’t fancy one of those then I find TP-Link the best of the consumer routers these days. The Archer C80 should do everything you need for under £100.

 

[Avalon]

If what you have is that awful, then switch the VM router back to router mode before going any further. It’s likely to do a better job than what you have.

As WJA says, ASUS don’t make anything I would classify as worth paying actual money for in terms of routers, where we differ is Mikrotik stuff (while decent), it has an unfortunate learning curve that doesn’t lend itself to the consumer market, something like an ER-X is probably going to be easier to get along with and similar performance, but again it’s more prosumer orientated. TPLink sounds like an odd choice, but they have history for bringing feature sets to market segments that never dreamed they could have and other OEM’s used to differentiate sectors for years, they produce reasonably well supported/updated hardware that is stable and budget friendly. The other option is an AP located centrally and using your VM Hub as a router, you’ve not mentioned anything it can’t do that makes me think you need a 3rd party router at this stage, and literally anything that doesn’t crash sounds better than what you currently have.

 

[D.Roberts]

@WJA96 thanks for the reply I shall look into it

@Avalon LOL ashamed to admit this LOL but I never realy thought of actually testing the VM router out I assume its because I have never really gave it a chance from the stories I hear but as you say it cant do any worse than the router I have and if it does at least I have gave it a chance.

Great thinking LOL thanks.

P.S

in another post (spotted it after I opened this one) I see some one saying these are good

https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-b1300/

Any one else confirm this and whats the Wifi like as there seems to be no external antenna.

thanks

 

[Avalon]

Sometimes we all miss the obvious, even if it only buys you a few days for something nicer to arrive, stability is better than random crashing under load. If Wi-fi is your main issue, then I would look at running a cable for a dedicated AP somewhere centrally if possible, budget wise that can be a £20 used Meraki MR16 running DDWRT or if you prefer new, I still like the UniFi AC-Lite for £60, someone will claim that you can buy something with the same chipset for less, but the cheapest price I found for either last time was the opposite by about £2.

 

[D.Roberts]

actually crazy thing is I wired my house not to long ago for network points RJ45 sockets on wall in each room while I was at it I did run a spare cat6 in the attic to allow for an AC up there which was the plan but still need a new router.

I also did look at the Unifi stuff way back...(should be a thread on my wired install some where).

But yeah I shall take all the advice got and have a ponder...I shall also report back on what route I go ETC as it might help others.

Thanks again

 

[D.Roberts]

Hmmm maybe I never actually did post pics of the install ah well shall slap a few up here

https://imgur.com/k4CPZOk

https://imgur.com/1BI23EW

https://imgur.com/Phow5Rx

https://imgur.com/whX66XS

https://imgur.com/CcjOVtk

So the grey cables are cat5e for the CCTV I am going to install at some point did not see the point in CAT6 for them as I got the CAT5e cable free so used that uo for them and saved the expensive CAT6 for important stuff .

So you can see 8 cables going off to the left they are for front room and the other 4 are for dining room that has my PC ETC.

Other cables going off to the right are going up stairs past boiler ETC into attic and down into each bedroom (3 of them) and as said x1 cat6 for AC point at some point and x2 grey cables for CCTV at some point.

Yes Yes the routers are in the cupboard so Wifi will be terrible BUT it always has been so please ignore that LOL way before it was in there its was crap ETC.

Thanks all stay safe