Need a new cable router, suggestions needed

jayme1

I need to buy a new cable router, and was wondering if anyone can give any suggestions?

It must have gigabit WAN and LAN ports, I would also really like it to have IPv6 support although that is not absolutely necessary.
Price, basically as cheap as possible.

grizzly1911

jayme1 wrote: »

I need to buy a new cable router, and was wondering if anyone can give any suggestions?

It must have gigabit WAN and LAN ports, I would also really like it to have IPv6 support although that is not absolutely necessary.
Price, basically as cheap as possible.

Anything suitable in the TP LINK stable?

I have been more than happy with their ASDL N routers and they are very competitive.

Edit:- http://www.box.co.uk/Tp-Link_TL-WR1042ND_Wireless_Gigabit_Cab_1216600.html

Jaxer

Another vote for TP products. They're good value for money and pretty easy to set up. I just bought this one for my Virgin Media connection - was very easy to swap out the old one:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001FWYGJS/sr=8-1/qid=1352040521/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&qid=1352040521&seller=&sr=8-1

sillygoose

I got one of these.. refurb (just means they were returns from people coming off internet contracts) near good as new mine.. less than £20, N+ WIFI, all gigbit ports. Firmware easy updates online. Mines on Virgin Cable.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=251015834983

debitcardmayhem

No suggestions , but just a question have Virgin stated when they will start using/demanding ipv6 ?

John_Gray

Given the length of time that they have taken to not combine all the old BlueYonder and NTL email addresses onto a single Virgin media email domain, I would put IPv6 several years off.

On a VM forum, Alex Brown. Head of Broadband Product Experience (!) for Virgin Media, says:
"Realistically this is going to be a way off for us, so it's too early to answer any specifics sorry."

So perhaps 2017?

jayme1

Thanks for the suggestions I like the sound of the TP Link router, I've had a look and I'd have to go for the TL-WR1043ND version for cable, also the USB port could be useful.

There's no word on IPv6 from Virgin, I, like John Gray, don't think it will be any time soon, 'they' (internet people) say it could be 10 years before people need IPv6 and I wouldn't be surprised if VM introduce it in 9 years 11 months time.

IPv6 was only to be future proof because routers aren't really something you need to replace very often (mine is almost 4 years old now and I only need a new one because it has 100Mbit ports and my internet is now 120Mbit), so if VM turned it on in, say, 3 years time I would be able to use it but I can live without it. You never know TP-Link may even enable IPv6 in a firmware update.

grizzly1911

jayme1 wrote: »

Thanks for the suggestions I like the sound of the TP Link router, I've had a look and I'd have to go for the TL-WR1043ND version for cable, also the USB port could be useful.

There's no word on IPv6 from Virgin, I, like John Gray, don't think it will be any time soon, 'they' (internet people) say it could be 10 years before people need IPv6 and I wouldn't be surprised if VM introduce it in 9 years 11 months time.

IPv6 was only to be future proof because routers aren't really something you need to replace very often (mine is almost 4 years old now and I only need a new one because it has 100Mbit ports and my internet is now 120Mbit), so if VM turned it on in, say, 3 years time I would be able to use it but I can live without it. You never know TP-Link may even enable IPv6 in a firmware update.

Just out of interest is you speed guaranteed at 120mbs or up to, possible on full moons etc.?

If you only have 100mbs ports would it simply not take the 120mbs feed or would it just throttle it back?

jayme1

grizzly1911 wrote: »

Just out of interest is you speed guaranteed at 120mbs or up to, possible on full moons etc.?

If you only have 100mbs ports would it simply not take the 120mbs feed or would it just throttle it back?

I do actually get 115Mbit/s consistently, and when I download real world files I get 14MB/s most of the time, I know from reading some posts I am lucky to get those speeds.

It's probably easier if I tell you the set up I'm using now, I have a Superhub that I use it's router functionality just for the Ethernet ports and have with wireless turned off, (because the wireless on the Superhub is rubbish).
I then have my old router wired in just for it's wireless which is fine because only mobile phones use the wireless.

But the Superhub has a well documented problem of corrupt downloads esp. on the PS3, which is solved by turning it to modem only mode and using your own router (which I have tested and it does fix everything), but because my old router has only 100Mbit/s ports the WAN to LAN throughput tops out at about 80Mbit/s meaning that's my top internet speed which is obviously a downgrade.
So buying a new router and having it in Modem Only mode permanently solve all my problems, without having to wait for firmware updates from VM, plus with the USB port on the TP-Link I can throw a thumb drive in it which would actually be quite useful.

When I decided to take the Superhub I knew it was a gamble but if I hadn't and decided to keep my old modem I would have had to buy a new router anyway in order to get the speeds, so ultimately I'm in the same situation overall.