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Synology Router, the features are great, been easy to set up and manage. Better than the ones the ISPs provide.
Still on a Virgin Superhub 3 here. Only live in a flat and it's good enough for my use and the missus
Fritz!Box 3490 but probably looking to change at some point because I can't decide if it's the router or the access point which seems to 'disconnect' the wifi connection even though it's saying it's connected on the AP and on the Fritz!Box. Hard to diagnose when the logs say everything is fine lol.
Two x Netgear Nighthawks. One as a master where the fibre comes in & the second as a slave hardwired at the other end of the house, with a WiFi booster in between. We have meter thick walls to get through & this has proved to be the best solution. Oh & the WiFi turns off on the main router & extender during the night so our kids can't be on the net all night and they don't have the password for the second WiFi router, thats just for me & the Mrs.
std bt round logo hub, im on a 100mb deal or something , gettiing above that tho 140-ish.
No reason to upgrade because no lan 1000 gear yet
AX11000 it's been excellent all round
virgin hub downstairs plus i have cable running upstairs to bt smart hub which i bought for 10£
Just a virgin superhub 3
Asus RT-AC88U pulling from VM piece of crap. Bit overkill but solid as a rock for my needs once up and running.
Couple of Ubiquiti Amplifi HD, one has a wired backbone with a different set of SSIDs for different groups of connections. Honestly been the most stable and reliable things I've ever had, minimal footprint as well. The SKY Q router is a pile of trash in terms of literally everything, so it's just used as a modem.
Something from my ISP.
My other networks ( storage & CCTV ) are on separate not internet connected switches, there are no wifi in this apartment aside from what leak in from the outside.
Just the Netgear job that my ISP supplied. While I'm starting to look at a new router Openreach have just installed a fair old number of fibre points on the telephone poles on the road outside my place. It seems FTTP may just be coming to the sleepy little market town of Crook.
Virgin Superhub 3, I see people complain about them a lot, but I live in quite a sizeable 4 bed corner house and never had an issue with it, I don't even use boosters and my eldest plays his xbox as far away from it as possible, maybe I got lucky?
I have an ubiquiti edgerouter-x with the supplied dirt box in modem mode.
No problems, doesnt break, only gets turned off when I need to physically move the plug or something.
An old Black & Decker one, don't use it very often.
In all seriousness a Fritz!Box 3490. Keep threatening to go Ubiquiti but no pressing need to upgrade yet.
Ubiquiti ERX-5 in the office.
Just replaced the ERX-5 at home with a couple of Ubiquiti Unifi access points and an SG-3 gateway, with the Unifi controller running on a Banana Pi M2+. The VPN to the office and roaming across access points is virtually transparent. Quite satisfying to see the hackers getting banned the moment they try to access the ports I have to keep open.
Currently setting up a Unifi system!
Asus RT-AC87U, may be old now but it handles Hyperoptic gigabit no problem at 940/940 with a 1-2ms ping to to the closest datacentre (Manchester, ~40 miles). Not bothered about wifi performance as much. Anyone know any powerful low latency, high throughput quad or more core routers where the price hasn't been upped 10x because of it's wifi? Only thing that would make me upgrade other than it going boom :)
Asus DSL-AC68U
I have no problems with it's wireless performance, not that I use wifi much when I've got gigabit wired through most of the house, but the kids like having wifi.
My only gripe was that when I set the router up as a VPN client my speed fell by 70%, compared to only losing 2-3% when running th VPN lient on my PC
We have the newer talk talk hub as it came with our internet package. It's certainly not a bad little box for our flat and it does everything we need it do to. I'd prefer some more QOS settings but other than that it's fine.
Asus RT-AC87U - took advantage of a miss-price in PC World about five years back and grabbed it for £80, which was roughly £100 less than retail at the time.
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Originally Posted by EvilCycle
I use a Draytek 2860. I get VLANs, bandwidth manangement, and much more. I barely scrape the surface with what I use, of course, but VLANs and bandwidth management are essential.
There's one VLAN for me, one VLAN for IoT, one VLAN for guests, and another for experimentation.
BT HomeHub5 but its reflashed with OpenWRT with some adblocking and cloudflare DOT over HTTPS.
Am considering getting a Ubiquiti wifi point but a recent set of firmware update improved the wifi so holding off on that.
Sadly the adblocking is sucking up all the memory so i either will have to reduce the blocking or get myself a PI to run PiHole on it instead. I did try TalkTalks new router but you cannot change a damn thing on it so it went back in the box.
I have a TP-Link Archer VR2800 and I love it. Works so much better on my BT 80/20 Fibre than my original BT router. Used a VR1900 on EE previously and had no complaints at all with it
Netgear R7800 running Voxel’s excellent firmware. Runs fab.
Getting 310Mb down and 49Mb up on Zen G.fast. Their provided Fritzbox! is fine, but it doesn’t support beamforming and so the other routers I’ve used instead have always seemed to have better range in my really long flat.
ASUS RT-AC86U running Merlinwrt.
Replaced the RT-N66U, also running Merlin, when the 66 stopped being supported by Merlin.
Using the Talk Talk wifi hub, for years been running my own routers and when I upgraded to fibre they sent it. I plugged it in and it worked, I tested it and it did well so I left it. Seems they actually sent a decent spec router for once.
Sky Q router, as required by their T&Cs.
Virgin Superhub version 3 here. Been super reliable as has the 350 mb service
i used TalkTalk WI-Fi Hub Sagemcom 5364 which is great for the whole family
speed is good and signal in goes right back garden
I am using a superhub 3 which I am about to launch out the window if it restarts one more time. Non stop restarts for the last 24 hours. What a joke
Asus AX88U with merlin firmware.
I use a VerminMedia Rowter which is faster & better than a VM Rooter
I'm using a Netgear Nighthawk XR700, it has been absolutely flawless for about 2 years now. Amazing performance, insane wireless range, hasn't crashed once despite seeding files 24/7. It's fantastic.
Got the Virgin Hub 3.0 as the modem.
Phone up VM have it replaced, They'll send you a new one free of charge and change it yourself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonj1611
Hoonigan 3ms PING! wtf are you right next door to the street Cab or something? i thought u'd be on 1GB by now
I'm very close to the street cab, about 50M away, and I was the first person onto a new "rack" or whatever they have in the cabinet when we were connected up. Possibly might still be the only person on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jace007
We're due the Virgin Gig1 round here soon, but I honestly don't need it. I'm not working from home anymore, as of Monday, so unless Virgin hand out some free upgrades, this will be us for a while.
Im using a QOTOM mini PC from aliexpress which I installed Pfsense 2.4 works alot better than the ISP supplied router
A Draytek 130 Modem with a ASUS RT-AC5300. Very happy with the setup.
Not very happy with the Internet falling over all the time with TalkTalk but a problem for another day.
An Asus DSL-AC68U on plusnet. Going to get another Asus router and try out their AiMesh since we're moving from a 1 bed flat to a 3 bed house.
Deleted as decided sharing my network gear on a public forum probably isn't a good idea
I use a Billion 8900AX as my router as I have Fibre from the cabinet via telephone line. But for Wifi devices I use Linksy Velop Wifi 5. They keep disconnecting tried moving around the house but drop out. If push comes to shove I may opt to buy some Ubiquiti Access Points along with their edge routers
I have split things up. So its the combo, FTTP handled by the Gigaclear router, then BT Whole Home mesh wifi, and Netgear gigabit smart switch handling the wired. The Wifi on the supplied router is meant to be pretty crap so went to BT mesh, seems to work very well. Might be changing to a new FTTP provider, we have 2 in the the village, new one is Trooli.
Draytek 2862.
PC running opnsense. I am using my fritzbox router provided by zen in modem mode as my draytek 130 kept on disconnecting and I haven't had a chance to look in to it yet. Very happy with opnsense.
Netgear Nighthawk R7800. Working very well for now but I may get a pair of Linksys Velop mesh units with my new broadband package, if I'm lucky.
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Originally Posted by jimcumming
Ran a no-name fanless mobile i7 with 6 Intel lans from China with Sophos UTM for a while - worked great but kept hitting the 50 ip limit on the free version.
Now running a Ubiquiti Unifi Dream Machine Pro. Works well, but annoyingly missing some feature vs the PC.
I don't understand. It's being scanned on the net multiple times an hour/day by script kiddies. Any weakness means you're already owned.Quote:
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Originally Posted by jimcumming
A Draytek Vigor 2960, but it might get upgraded in a while if I find that I can get the City Fibre 900meg broadband. It will only let 500Mb through which is fine with the 350Mb we have with Virginmedia we currently have. I have the Virgin Superhub 3 setup as a modem only with the Draytek doing the routing.
My router is a pfSense virtual appliance running on Dell PowerEdge server with pci-express passthrough of physical 10Gb-T NIC. The router is fed directly from a Virgin superhub in modem mode. and we have separate access points for Wi-Fi. Bit of a complex setup but very secure and very fast, love it!
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Originally Posted by lodore
I'm surprised given the technical level of this forum there aren't more responses like this.Quote:
Originally Posted by akc1
I switched to pfSense to test something with PPPoE and was surprised at how easy it was to setup, I switched over to it fully in a few hours.
So currently I've got an Openreach modem for FTTC connected directly to my switch on a VLAN which is trunked to my ESXi server (Pentium G4560 PC) which has pfSense on it among other things. Switching performance is more than ample for Internet access and normal LAN activity.
What I really like is that it's allowed me to really up my home LAN security. Combined with a Unifi AP and a RADIUS server allows me to vlan wireless clients easily too. So I've got a guest WiFi network, and another network just for consumer devices which are security problems. Leaving things like my PC nicely isolated away.
If you've got an old PC you can turn into a home-server, I highly recommend it.