What wireless AC router to replace Sky router

[adwol48]

Hey folks looking to add an extra wireless router to my network and switch off the wireless on the sky router as its terrible. Would prefer to go AC as i alredy have quite few AC compatible devices and the dual band 2.4 and 5ghz would be handy as there are quite a few wireless networks in my area that are generally all 2.4ghz, like the look of the tp link stuff but don't think I can stretch to the asus routers. Anyone had experience setting up a new router along side the sky router and does it improve performance considerably. Thanks

 

[adwol48]

was going to go the AP route to be honest because its cheaper and simple but reading more about it i'd kinda like to do away with skys router altogether i already have my username and password acquired from the sky router and to have gigabit connections on the router would be nice since the rest of my network is all gigabit

 

[adwol48]

Already have two gigabit switches in the network one for living room one for office and they are inter connected

 

[adwol48]

I've got this. Full support for Sky MER (firmware update may be required), wireless AC and gigabit connections. The W8980 is cheaper and supports MER with a beta firmware, had that previously and also had no issues.
Ultimately will depend on how much you wish to spend.

was actually looking at the model without the modem a while back. thanks for the suggestion