Router Recommendations for Full Fibre 900 (wireless not needed)

[#1]

Hi there,

I am going to be signing up with PN Full Fibre 900 service in the near future and want to start getting the kit I need ready for when it's installed. 

What is the most reliable router for this service? I don't want anything with wi-fi on - just the routing bit.

Thanks for reading. 

[#2]

Try a Draytek 2927 (there is a non-wifi version) or perhaps a Ubiquiti UniFi UCG-Ultra Cloud Gateway Ultra Broadband Router.

Both will require some "learning" but should run trouble free for months or years.

To get the full 900Mb/s on the Draytek you will probably need to turn "hardware acceleration" on.

[#3]

thanks for that Mark, will check them out 👍

[#4]

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@markhawkin wrote:

To get the full 900Mb/s on the Draytek you will probably need to turn "hardware acceleration" on.

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Equally you will need kit which can perform at that level ... which unless one is doing something very specialised is likely to be over kill.  Frankly in a residential setting, I do not understand the thirst for commercial grade infrastructures.  I recall the days when data centre links running at sub Gbit were over kill.

[#5]

There is a bit of a paradox here.

The ISP supplied routers (Plusnet's Hub 2 etc.) can do the throughput (I assume using hardware acceleration) but are not "feature rich".

It isn't the speed of my 145Mb/s Plusnet service which needs a Draytek, it is other functionality (for example an isolated network for things like the doorbell and other IoT things I don't trust) that makes a Draytek or similar desirable.

[#6]

@raoulsilva 

Given that WiFi is not required I see no problem with the PN Hub2 unless you want a Router with bells and whistles on it.

While you can do research I would suggest not doing anything until Full Fibre is installed and running and then see what may be required.

Brian

[#7]

There is also the consideration of what kit one has presently and why it’s thought might not be suitable for the new service.  There’s an implied presumption of a bottleneck … but no context of what the user needs to support.  Throughput of what, network segregation how many devices doing what?

[#8]

Hi,

Thanks to everyone for posting.

I am sure the equipment Plusnet send out is up to the job (any idea who makes their kit?), otherwise they wouldn't use it.

I am not sure if they do the same as Virgin Media where their equipment is locked to their own DNS? I would rather use Cloudflare or Quad9.

I have Unifi access points around the house hence no need for wireless.

I am going to use OPNsense so will probably just keep the Plusnet router with as many functions turned off.

[#9]

As you are in the Ubiquiti ecosystem their Cloud Gateway Ultra would be the obvious choice if you wanted to replace the Plusnet Hub. It's reasonably priced as well.