New router for Virgin Media

d0nkeyk0ng

Apologies all for not replying sooner. For some reason the forum software does not let me multi-quote despite selecting the option. Odd behaviour.


Superhub 2ac is what I have - reported to be great generally as a modem as low latency. Not so great at handling multiple wireless devices. The newer Superhub 3 handles wireless devices better (more so if you separate the SSID for each freq) but has horrendous latency (>200ms) which is bad for gaming. I gather a patch has been released to supposedly fix this but not everyone has benefitted (according the VM forums).


Sky Q box and Playstation connected directly to router. 2x smart TVs, 4 smartphones, 2 tablets, 2 laptops, 2 nest cameras and a Sky Q mini box are connected wirelessly. Some devices are older and connect at 2.4GHz, most are newer. If "too many" devices are connected at once, the whole thing grinds down.


Having looked around on the VM forums and elsewhere, I felt it was best to go for a separate router which could handle QoS and VPN rather than being device-specific. The Asus RT68U was quite popular and it's closest latest model is the RT86U which looked promising but some issues around it not liking 2.4Ghz devices have put me off.


I used to have Draytek many years ago but I hated its UI. Both Asus and Netgear have open source custom firmware which adds more features looks appealing.

datostar

I had the multiple devices problem with a Superhub 3 constantly dropping wifi connections to existing devices when a new one connected, poor range necessitating a wifi extender and abysmal performance with a NAS. I bit the bullet about 6 months ago and bought a TP-Link Archer 3200 router. Performance has been impeccable since and I don't need the extender any more. I run the 2.4 and 5GHz channels with separate SSIDs and a guest channel on 2.4GHz again with its own SSID. Vast improvement.

steviebuk

arciere wrote: »

Why do you say it's not good a good router? Are you referring to the WiFi?

Because they don't allow you to add your own DNS entries into the router as Virgin really want non techs to use their DNS only. And they are insecure. The sign in page doesn't support https, you can't choose complex passwords and you can do json injections on them.