Honestly you have the HomeHub 3. I know you believe you can get better with some expensive hardware. Take it from me I've used a Netgear WNDR4500 & 3700. Also used a belkin n750. The range worse in some cases than the Homehub and Sky router.

By using 2 channels on 2.4Ghz it gives you better wireless speeds but reduces the range. Expensive hardware generally does this.

5Ghz barely travels far at all.

The BEST solution is multiple APs around the property. Don't waste the money on hardware that may or may not work.

Edited by ukhardy07 (Sat 10-Nov-12 00:01:39)

From what your saying homeplugs may be an idea.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/hardware/reviews.html

Also have another review going up in a day or so.
Yes to 5GHz range, which makes sense in terms of physics too.

People moan about broadband speed sales, but the inflation is even worse for wireless kit

In reply to a post by zrerz:

liked the look of these, after I read review of it in PC Advisors November issue, but not in my price range yet (hopefully, after christmas, might treat myself).

Thanks for your comments, so you get a strong wireless signal upstairs without having bought the matching USB adaptors for 802.ac?

I was looking at these in amazon, but price was near £70 each, so not for me just yet.

The router is placed in the hall. I get a strong (5 bar) signal in all rooms downstairs except the conservarory where it's 4 bars. I get 4 bars in the garden and 4 in all rooms updatairs. I get the same speeds wirelessly (typically 73Mbps peak) that I get on my wired desktop due to the double channel feature (I'm on BT Infinity 2 with a line rate of 78 and am 350 metres from the DSLAM).

The 5 Ghz signal tends to be one bar weaker upstairs and in the garden and conservatory, but 5 in other rooms downstairs. I haven't bothered with an ac adapter yet - too expensive in my view and I hate dongles anyway as they just get in the way!

It cost me not very much as I sold my previous router (Netgear WNDR4500) which made up for most of the cost - making a low cost future proofing (and gave me another toy to play with of course!)

Thanks for your further comments, looks like this is the one to buy then.

As you say you too are on BT infinity 2, am I right in saying you simply disconnect the home hub 3 and connect the white BT openreach box into the new netgear ADSL socket?

Essentially yes. just plug the router into the BT modem. You can then let the Netgear genie configure it for you or do it yourself. Just go into the internet page (log in using http://192.168.1.1) and set it to PPPoE, login name [email protected], leave password blank).

Couldn't be simpler.........

That said, make sure you update to the latest firmware, then go to Advanced/Advanced Setup/Wireless Settings and make sure the box next to 'Enable 20/40Hz box is unchecked. That ensures you get the double channel on all the time rather than the box measuring potential interference and resetting it to single channel...........

many thanks

what ever you do dont buy a dgnd3700v2 as i have just bought it and it has a hugh bug or design flaw which i am trying to sort.

basicly you ca not access any device on your home network by using a device on wifi. I have a ipad and i can not access anything on my network at all from it i had to put my older dg834gt netgear back in and it all works.

I contacted netgear but i found out in forums that this has been going on for 3 months and when i contacted them they are getting me to try different things. I mean come on it was posted 3 months ago and they still have no cule or what is happening and i might or prob will have to send this back.

I might go for a different router i dont know

Disconnect the router from the net. Disable all firewalls - in the router, and Windows, and any IS security package you have. See if you can connect then.

If it works, you start adding them back one at a time, or possible separately one at a time first, until you find the awkward one. Which in this case is likely to be the router, but may not be. It could be one of the others doesn't like it. Or a combination oof it and the others.

If it doesn't work, just set things back to how they were and reconnect. Lost nothing, and eliminated firewalls as the cause. I've had similar issues in the past.

Edited by RobertoS (Mon 12-Nov-12 22:40:45)

not that

its a bad firmware problem this as it just does not work with any device that is connected to wifi.

talking to support but this is a seroius problem and i dont even need the computer on as i use my ipad to control my amp and it does not work but it does on my old dg834gt stright away