Speeding up Broadband

60BOWENS

We are with TalkTalk Fast fibre broadband.

We have the TalkTalk provided router but it seems to be a bottleneck especially when multiple devices are being used.

I am told we can get better speed and less buffering if we connect a seperate modem and wifi-router (dual band) to the broadband cable rather than TalkTalk provided all in one router/modem.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

KxMx

Which router do you have? 

I'm also with TT on Faster Fibre and the router they provided me with is dual band. 

GunJack

The newer Wifi Hub has pretty poor modem circuitry in it - e.g. on my line, the Hub syncs at 46Meg, but the older HG635 and 633 routers both sync at 53Meg....I have complained (properly) to TT, but they can't seem to see the issue... if you can pick up one of the older ones on ebay I'd suggest using that, the 633 is dual-band wifi (but after many years on mine the 5GHz band has gone intermittent, so I'm using the new Hub set up as a wifi access point and turned off the wifi on the 633). Just looked, there's plenty to be had on t'bay, you can pick up an unused one for a few quid....
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313&_nkw=hg633+router&_sacat=0

debitcardmayhem

GunJack said:

The newer Wifi Hub has pretty poor modem circuitry in it - e.g. on my line, the Hub syncs at 46Meg, but the older HG635 and 633 routers both sync at 53Meg....I have complained (properly) to TT, but they can't seem to see the issue... if you can pick up one of the older ones on ebay I'd suggest using that, the 633 is dual-band wifi (but after many years on mine the 5GHz band has gone intermittent, so I'm using the new Hub set up as a wifi access point and turned off the wifi on the 633). Just looked, there's plenty to be had on t'bay, you can pick up an unused one for a few quid....
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313&_nkw=hg633+router&_sacat=0

BHell Gunny's back watcha mate.

I digress  , when I was with (spits) TT i used my own ASUS adsl router, then when I saw sense and left TT and swapped to SSE (who they?) I bought a newer ASUS DSL-AC68U which is very good and then bought another ASUS router only no VDSL and use them together as AI-Mesh , wifi is excellent in the house garden and in my neighbours (remember when you could meet neighbours in their house/garden?)and with the extra 4 ethernet ports is better than powerline upstairs.

aerostar

60BOWENS said:

We have the TalkTalk provided router but it seems to be a bottleneck especially when multiple devices are being used.

When you say "multiple devices" I assume you mean wifi devices, if so then that is probably your problem,  if they are all down loading(streaming etc) , you only have a certain bandwidth(capacity) available, and that capacity is used up, so buffering will occure.

GunJack

debitcardmayhem said:

BHell Gunny's back watcha mate.

Ey up DCM....I ain't gone anywhere mate, still hanging around like a bad smell lol