Is there a better router out there?
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Is there a better router out there?
04-12-2015 7:43 PM
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Am I kidding myself here when the reason is the old copper wiring I still have to rely on or can I make it better? All replies and opinions, and recommendations, gratefully received.
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04-12-2015 7:49 PM
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04-12-2015 7:52 PM
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04-12-2015 8:15 PM
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06-12-2015 11:18 PM
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there's often deals on tp-link ones for under £30 if you use any wireless devices you won't regret changing the router depending on your needs you can get a decent one from £18 delivered
if its of any use I bought this cheap one for work as we had a BT Business Hub which required rebooting almost daily, this has 7 wired devices via a dumb humb, and between 4 and 25 wifi devices connected at anyone time, including some on an isolated guest Wi-Fi network, remains rock solid for months on end in my instance line speed went from 3.5mb/s to 8mb/s, again its more so the poor quality bt hub
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008I3GCNU
a friend of mine who's not with plusnet but has the same Thomson router that plusnet supply, his line speed went from 0.8mb/s to just under 4mb/s by changing the router! to be fair, they had been using theirs for a few years too
if your confident logging into the router to enter a password i'd recommend changing
Re: Is there a better router out there?
07-12-2015 11:34 AM
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@Merluza,
Please post the information requested by Jim so that we can see what the real problem is before you go wasting money on something you might not need.
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07-12-2015 11:38 AM
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07-12-2015 11:45 AM
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You ought to be able to get the router stats without difficulty. Are you connected via a wire or wifi to the router?
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07-12-2015 12:03 PM
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07-12-2015 12:14 PM
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PlusNET might be able to do a remote firmware upgrade. Usually a request on here is all that's required.
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07-12-2015 7:34 PM
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This is published on the High Speed Broadband page
Estimated line speed:
There's no speed estimate currently held on your account.
Current line speed:
4.8 Mb
A speed test comes in just under that. In terms of stats I don't know what stats you may be wanting or how to find them. The info from Oldjim only takes me to speed testers and the speed is always close to 4.5 up and between .5 and .9 down. I don't think there is anything wrong with the connection, it's stable but it's just slow, Plusnet won't agree, they tend not to, it's well within their acceptable limits I'm sure. I can live with this for the time being but I would like something closer to what is offered, and have had it previously, if there is anything that PN could do, such as the firmware update, fine, if they are looking please do it. I don't want to buy another router but once they supply the router it seems we are together for life, and it is ageing alongside me, and no updated routers ever appear or are offered for sale.
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07-12-2015 10:00 PM
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Quote from: Townman No router can do better than the limitations set by the line - it depends on what the issue is. Your comment reminds me of sales patter I heard from a young buck in PC World extolling the virtues of 54Mbps wifi to a clearly non-tech savvy mother. "He will be able to game much better with this router, though you'll also need to upgrade the wifi cards in the PCs too...". I should mention that this was back in the days of when only the very best of phone lines could get any service approaching 8Mbps. There is no point spending money on a better router if the line is running at its full potential and the router is not actually the limiting factor.
@Merluza,
Please post the information requested by Jim so that we can see what the real problem is before you go wasting money on something you might not need.
apologies, but wasn't the original post asking if there is a better router, and basically, there are a lot of better routers, I've never seen an ISP supplied router that can sustain a good high quality connection with the exception of Sky Routers & BT Open Reach Modem's, the Thompson one is just a dire piece of equipment, its built to a price, and that price is cheap. What I said may sound like an idiot saying sales, but its based on countless times of replacing said Thompson routers with better quality ones, ideally its nice to try a different one first I agree, but stats from one router alone don't mean much in my book, although, tis a starting point I agree!
Re: Is there a better router out there?
07-12-2015 11:18 PM
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There is an implied assumption that a different router will do better in the absence of any evidence that the other limiting factors have the capacity to do better. There is little point in spending hard earned cash on a 'better' router only to find it can go no faster due to the limitations of the line - the distance from the exchange for example. Personally I'd want to know that having spent cash, I'll see benefit from it. Until recent years I have always bought my own routers - you get nowt worth having for free - until I had particularly bad problems on a line and I was persuaded to take a PN router as a reference. To my surprise, it performed well, delivering better xDSL synch than anything else I'd used. Indeed after the firmware upgrade its running my line well above expectations at 3dB. XDSL stability is excellent - indeed I was gutted by a recent xDSL 'failure' just 20-30 days short of a 500 day continious uninterrupted xDSL session. With an attenuation over 50dB I'm never going to see much over 5.5Mbps no matter how good the router might be.
@Merluza,
Look here for access details for router stats - http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/frogstats.php
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08-12-2015 12:48 PM
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08-12-2015 2:56 PM
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