I'm having some real trouble choosing a new router, please help as the more I read the further I seem to get from making a decision
I'm currently with BT with a Smart Hub and to be fair it's a good router, bit temperamental watching videos on the loo but other than that it cover the house pretty well. But I've just cancelled due to price increase.
Have gone back to Virgin 100mbps with a Superhub 3. I've had one of these before and whilst the wifi range/coverage wasn't bad it was one of the worst routers I've had. Config pages took an age to load, any serious traffic through it and it would need a reboot etc etc. Had to do a complete reset a few times which then meant all port forwarding had to be redone.
So to avoid this I'm going to set it to modem mode and buy a decent AC router, I was originally set on the Asus ac68u but then lots of reviews pointed me towards the Linksys wrt1900acs......then lots of forum posts complained about constant reboots which may or may not have been fixed with more recent firmware updates. The Netgear R7000 doesn't seem to handle the longer distances as well as the Asus models. Some people swear by the older TP-Link Archer C7. Then the Asus AC87U comes into the mix but most reviews seem to be when the model was new and the AC68U had been out longer thus had more stable firmware at time of writing..........
All I want is a stable, fast router with the same if not better range & speed as the BT Smart Hub thats not going to cost me £300+
Any ideas/suggestions welcome
I'm currently with BT with a Smart Hub and to be fair it's a good router, bit temperamental watching videos on the loo but other than that it cover the house pretty well. But I've just cancelled due to price increase.
Have gone back to Virgin 100mbps with a Superhub 3. I've had one of these before and whilst the wifi range/coverage wasn't bad it was one of the worst routers I've had. Config pages took an age to load, any serious traffic through it and it would need a reboot etc etc. Had to do a complete reset a few times which then meant all port forwarding had to be redone.
So to avoid this I'm going to set it to modem mode and buy a decent AC router, I was originally set on the Asus ac68u but then lots of reviews pointed me towards the Linksys wrt1900acs......then lots of forum posts complained about constant reboots which may or may not have been fixed with more recent firmware updates. The Netgear R7000 doesn't seem to handle the longer distances as well as the Asus models. Some people swear by the older TP-Link Archer C7. Then the Asus AC87U comes into the mix but most reviews seem to be when the model was new and the AC68U had been out longer thus had more stable firmware at time of writing..........
All I want is a stable, fast router with the same if not better range & speed as the BT Smart Hub thats not going to cost me £300+
Any ideas/suggestions welcome