mykeyb Posted May 10, 2016 Share Posted May 10, 2016 I am currently with Sky Broadband (not Fibre) and with 2 kids and a wife we do an awful lot of media streaming from my server. I am currently looking at changing my current bog standard Sky Router with a Gigabit Wifi Router which hopefully will give me more internal bandwidth and a better wifi signal around the house. Any recommendations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted May 10, 2016 Share Posted May 10, 2016 (edited) What's your budget? I swear by the ASUS range, I've been using the AC68U for a year or so now, it still pleases me when my phone connects to it at the end of the street, and I get 80Mbps at the bottom of my garden which is about 15 metres and a solid external wall away.But it has all sorts of bells and whistles that you might not give a shit about. Is it just raw data transfer speeds and range you care about? FYI, Sky don't support using your own router, and won't give you the username/password. It's obtainable, you'll just have to spend some time dicking around with Wireshark to get them. There's a few guides online and people have been doing it for years, but's it's a bit more involved than it is for other ISPs. Edited May 10, 2016 by Davkaus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mykeyb Posted May 10, 2016 Author Share Posted May 10, 2016 I don't really have a budget, I want something that works well. I have read up on the username and password and believe I have them extracted already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mykeyb Posted May 17, 2016 Author Share Posted May 17, 2016 Money no object, want something that works well...........................hmm I have just bought a Homehub 5 of ebay to see if there is indeed a speed increase. Not expecting a miracle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrenm Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 I've just changed my HH3 to a HH5 type B. Massive difference. Everything now works perfect all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mykeyb Posted May 26, 2016 Author Share Posted May 26, 2016 Mine is still on the table in the box as BT have locked it down and it won't accept the o2 details which lets you use it with Sky broadband. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meme Posted July 27, 2016 Share Posted July 27, 2016 Today, I upgraded from my terribad 8Mbps internet from ShitTalk to 35Mbps fibre. Still from ShitTalk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omariqy Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Sorry if I shouldn't post this in this topic but I have just moved to a new flat. The area doesn't have fibre broadband yet so I've got BT with supposed speeds of up to 17mb/s. When I was unpacking I noticed that the previous tenant had left his old router at the flat and he also had a netgear gigabit switch installed. I have no idea what one of these is just that it is supposed to improve speeds. Is it worth keeping? Will I get a better speed compared to the bog standard router BT provide? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 (edited) The newer homehub (v5) has Gigabit ethernet, anyway. If you have one of the older homehubs that doesn't, you'll get better speeds locally, as in between the devices that you have plugged in to the switch, so if you move lots of files around between your own devices, or stream media from a home server or something like that, it may be beneficial. It won't have any effect on your internet speeds unless you had a connection faster than 100mbps which you're nowhere near. Edited August 10, 2016 by Davkaus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omariqy Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Perfect, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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