best router for fttc

Hi all. i just want abit of advice on the best router for fttc. Right now im using a netgear wnr1000 but im looking for a gigabit router. I've been looking at the new netgear n900 but i don't know if its any good or if its suitable for fttc.
any advice on this would be helpful.
I will be willing to pay up to about £200 for a router,but the cheaper the better....

Cheers
saboo

I have a draytek 2850vn, loads of features and has a built in VDSL modem

http://www.draytek.co.uk/products/vigor2850.html

Not got FTTC myself just yet but my friend runs the same router and he got better performance than with the OR modem provided with his FTTC install

Edited by Ripley (Mon 09-Apr-12 22:59:56)

What's the price on that bad boy.........

you can get the 2850n on Amazon for £250

Quality bit of kit though, you can do all sorts with it and you dont have to be a computer expert to set it up. The wifi is really good, will burn a hole in your walls if your not careful!

Draytek do have a link on their website to log onto the routers user interface and have a play, worth a look.

I got the VN version as that was all they had in stock, only difference is that one does voice over ip

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Draytek-Vigor-2850n-Fibre-...

http://www.draytek.com/.upload/Demo/Vigor2850/v3.6.0/

you can have a play with the router here on the link above!

another advantage is you can plug a usb internet dongle into the router to use as a back up connection

£250 maybe abit on the steep side though it does look like a good router. Does anyone know anything about the netgear n900........

You can get the 2850Vn for about £227 from Dabs.com & postage is £0.99 as the order would be over £200

Great router.

I've had mine for a week or so.

Reason I got it, is it's a 1 box unit for FTTC (coming here in a couple of months or so) so not Openreach modem required, & works well on ADSL2+.

Up to profile 30a on FTTC & if FTTP comes along, the WAN can take 1Gbs.

I think all in all, it's prity futureproof

Very very few routers out there can do ADSL, ADSL2+, VDSL, wireless n, & VOIP.

I bought an N900 series couldnt get it to work even after 40 mins on phone to the very helpful US Customer Service. Advised to take back and get a lesser model. Theoretically it should have worked.

In a panic bought a TP Link, never tried it.
I did find my old unused D Link DIR 855, awesome streaming HD around the house. Must say had it not been for the front panel readout i probably would have still been trying to get connected. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&...
Think lesser model http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/535879/art/d-link/di... is a complete bargain without the info panel.

The Billion Bipac 7800n is a quality router if you need something cheaper, have read of people using FTTC on it, but not used FTTC myself personally yet.

Thanks for all the info folks. i still don't know which one im going to buy but I'll get there in the end.


Cheers
saboo.......

After using a Draytek 2820VN for two years i would never recommend a Draytek. The hardware was good, but the firmware was extremely buggy and stayed that way throughout the entire time i used the device.

I finally ditched it in favour of a Draytek 120 ADSL modem attached to an Asus RT-N16 running the TomatoUSB firmware.

The RT-N16 is a couple of years old now, but it's still a great router if you don't need 5GHz wifi. It's gigabit on both LAN and WAN ports so you should be fine even if speeds exceed 100Mbps in the near future.

Whatever router you go for the best bit of advice i can give is to make sure it's compatible with the various open-source firmwares out there. The stock firmwares are often extremely poor but something like TomatoUSB can give you capabilities you'd otherwise spend hundreds on.

If you want to do a lot more than just routing then i'd suggest building your own out of an older (or a low-power, cheap Atom/Brazos) computer. A couple of 1Gbps NICs in the machine and installing pfSense on it will give you features you can't get on a commodity router at any price. Couple it with a cheap 1Gbps network switch and your old WNR1000 for wifi and you've got yourself a very powerful solution. This is the solution i'll probably be going with the next time i need to upgrade (although with a Fon router for wifi so i get free access to all the other Fon hotsports).

I have just upgraded to the ASUS RT-N56u, fantastic router in my opinion. Had mine for around 6 weeks now and had no issues whatsoever. The real advantage of this router for me is it's wireless coverage. We have thick walls around the house and have struggled with signal in some rooms but with this router I get excellent coverage all around the house.

I have a Billion 7800N that is performing superbly with ADSL2+. The wireless coverage can't be faulted in this four bedroomed house.

I am getting FTTC in a weeks time so I will be able to personally comment on its performance with Fibre then but my research on the interweb suggest that it works fine with BT Infinity.

HTH