I wonder if anyone can recommend a good router set up for PN fibre?
I'm a good few miles - say 5 - from the exchange and about a mile and a bit from the Fibre Cabinet. I get speeds of up to 12 Mbs down and 1 Mbs up and generally speaking a good service enabling streaming of i player, You tube , music and allows me to send and recieve a large quantity of email traffic daily, mostly without problems - but there is a problem.
Current home network set up is a BT/ ECI Fibre Modem and Technicolour TG582n FTTC ( modified for Fibre) , with ethernet connection to a remotely situated small switch and wifi access point elsewhere in the property. This is a very satisfactory set up when it works which is 95% of the time. I also have a VOIP phone that I rarely use on the network.
Trouble is that the TG582n randomly throws a wobbly and goes off line while the BT / ECI Modem stays rock solid and connected . Sometimes the TG582n siezes or it might display random flashing lights like it's Christmas. Sometimes I can log into it's admin interface and ask it to reconnect to the internet, other times I need to turn off its power suplly and wait 60s before restarting the router. Then it is fine.
There must be something wrong electronically. The phone line itself is fine, no noise and it seems unconnected to phone calls etc and there is nothing nearby causing EF I can see that would cause the TG582n to start doing what it does. Most evenings the router will drop connection at roughly 11pm when I might be streaming i Player or some music. Nothing in the building switches on or off at that time. My intuition suggests that the TG582n is sensitive to something, or that it tries to carry out some process at the same time each day, which causes system crashes.
If I were to replance the set up what would be my best bet for a troible free set up? I dont want to spend a fortune and reading about other users experience of the Hub One I don't want to try one of those on its own.
Thanks in advance
