Recomended Router for Plusnet Fibre?

Hi i'll be moving to Plusnet hopefully in August with Fibre but would like to know any recomendations of Wireless routers?

I'm wary of "free" routers so would like to spend extra to get a decent one (unless the bundled one is good?)

Thanks.

The router Plusnet supply (Technicolor TG582N) does the job as well as any other router would. Buying an expensive router will not make your connection any better, so I would recommend you save your money.

The supplied TG582N only has three usable LAN ports so if you need more you will need an additional switch. Some also report that its wireless range is not particularly good but I have no personal experience of it as the two routers (which they no longer supply) that I have had off Plusnet for FTTC have been a Netgear and a Zyxel and they have both been satisfactory.

Well my view of the Technicolor TG582N or infact any thompson /technicolor routers is that they are poor, poor gui that can be slow as well as very few advanced options being assessable via it's gui , and when i breifly used one, even port forwarding was a pain , I woudn't recomend the TG582N at all , Iv'e always used my own choice of router , one that does what i want it to do

Depends if you have a specific requirement? I don't think you get additional speed using a more expensive router. The GUI can be extremely slow at times as pointed out.

It seems to do the job however, upgrade if it fails to do something you want.

Edited by narz (Sun 23-Jun-13 00:30:13)

Well wireless speed is essential. I have tons of Wireless devices around the house so would require dual band or better.

I'm thinking of Asus RT-N56U

Techicolors one's Wireless doesn't seem good enough for my need's.

Did you see this? http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/dslrouter/t/4247316...

Try the http://uk.asus.com/Networks/Wireless_Routers/RTN66U/ This is by far the best router around at the moment. It retails at around £108. I have one. The wireless range is fantastic! There's loads of extra features too.

I have a ASUS RT-N66U it as all the ports freed up, easy to port forward unlike the Technicolor TG582N which plusnet supplies, the TG582N does get you up and running, but does let you down on some areas.

In reply to a post by nuke_me:

I have a ASUS RT-N66U it as all the ports freed up, easy to port forward unlike the Technicolor TG582N which plusnet supplies, the TG582N does get you up and running, but does let you down on some areas.

Hia. don't suppose you can expand on the 'let you down on some areas' bit? I'm keen to update my Techni router (ethernet seems to work fine, but wireless is fairly terrible...even a few feet away).

Reliability is a must (ie. few to no restarts) along with solid wifi (several mobile devices in household all vying for tinterwebz).

Last week I installed an ASUS RT-N66U to replace my Plusnet 582n and am pleased with it so far. I don't seem to be losing connection to it from my wireless laptop, which I did several times a day on the 582n.

A big point in its favour is it does simultaneous 2.4GHz and 5GHz. My iPad and Samsung III both pick up the 5GHz once given the SSID for that. I've now fitted an ASUS USB-N53 dongle to the USB3 port on the laptop and get over 53Mbps via 5GHz wireless on speedtests from a 57.4Mbps IP Profile.

Thanks for the response RobertoS. I assume that it's ok with Powerline adapters and capable of streaming and transferring large files over the 'local' network?

Wifi is very important in our household, with umpteen devices connected any any given time. I went for the Netgear WNDR4500.

Has proved to be an excellent choice. Wifi on both 2.4GHz and 5.0GHz is fantastic. The ability to create an isolated 'guest' network is also very handy (no need to give visitors your primary wifi access codes).

Andrew

No idea about Powerline adapters but can't imagine there would be a problem.

It reckons it can handle 2 x 3 x 150Mbps wireless, and has 4 x 1gig LAN ports plus 2 x USB2 ports. I expect they have something pretty powerful behind the bits of that else the mushroom compound would have hit the fan long ago. WAN is 1gig.

I'm sure I read somewhere but can't immediately find it, that it can do three guest networks. The settings for 1 x 2.4GHz and 1 x 5GHz guests are staring you in the face in the GUI. Ah, just found:-

The RT-N66U supports up to three wireless networks over the 2.4 GHz band and three over the 5 GHz band, so it can protect computers from any unauthorized access, hacking and virus attacks. The parental control allows you to set up your kids' computer access times.

Presumably you give the kids a guest network with timed access. I don't quite get the logic of "... so it can protect ..." .

I'm going to bite the bullet and go grab one on the weekend. Everyone in the house is moaning at me for the slow internet via WiFi (personally I use Powerline, but it'll give me peace and quiet, lol).

The guest network thing sounds pretty useful as well - I'm sure it'll get used a lot over the festive period with friends and family coming over and wanting to update their hashtags, status, or instapics.

If you haven't got InSSIDer I suggest you download it so you can keep track of what channels are in use by surrounding networks. It's free and excellent.

Doesn't show microwaves ovens and suchlike, that one costs money!

Don't have it running when you do any speed tests!

Edited by RobertoS (Thu 05-Dec-13 13:19:55)