James

Thanks for input. What benefits would I see with this router?

When first installed I had speeds of 52 and 9.5. Now 42 and 9.5. Any chance the speeds would increase?

To be fair to BT, the connection is solid and wireless fairly good.

Keith

AC routers not only give you 802.11ac speeds (obviously) but also give you improved throughput on older a/b/g/n clients as well since they use the latest chipsets. At the moment the creme de la creme of AC routers are the Asus AC68U , Netgear R7000, linksys EA6900 and Linksys WRT1900AC. I just bought the WRT1900 (so that I can use openwrt in future) so my old rock solid EA6900 is sat collecting dust. I'd be happy to sell the ea6900 to you, it cost me £150 and I'd looking to get at least half the cost back. PM me if you're interested

I purchased the new Linksys WRT9100AC router, very fast and is providing great coverage in a three story house.

It doesn't come cheap at £249 from Amazon. Its connected to the Openreach hub and as been very stable and connected without any issues.

It is a wireless router only.

Lee

Edited by deleted (Mon 05-May-14 08:41:52)

In reply to a post by keithwjones:

Thanks for input. What benefits would I see with this router?

It depends where the slowdown is. If its on the outside of your property, then no difference. However if you are getting slowdown due to lots of neighbours using all the WiFi channels available at 2.4GHz, then a dual band router is worthwhile (if your kit can make use of 5GHz - older stuff can't, e.g. iPhone 4/4S and older laptops).

The HomeHub 3 is very competent but only 2.4GHz.

Best way to test is a wired connection to the hub and run a speed test, that is the max you can possibly get.

I'm assuming you can just try the HH5 and if it don't work out then you could buy a HG612 modem and replace the the HH with that.

Can that be done?

Edited by deleted (Mon 05-May-14 14:07:00)

Infinity 2 is currently engineer install with an Openreach modem. That could change.

Infinity 1 is self-install without the modem. You use the one built into the HH5. It seems neither option now gets the separate modem .

Your TP-Link router will work with either of the two Openreach modems. Edit - If you can get one.

Edited by RobertoS (Mon 05-May-14 20:37:33)

I haven't heard of anyone getting an OR modem with Infinity 2 for ages. They usually get a HH5. Occasionally the installer may provide an OR modem if asked.