Best BB Router?

Shefwedfan

Ok so I am moving into new house and it is not supplied by Virgin Media. I have had Virgin for last number of years and never really looked past them as there speed was great

So I need to look at option. Rang Eir and they say there is Fibre available with speeds up to 100mb.

So just wondering which providers are supplying the best wireless router? I know before the Eircom ones where terrible, They say it is the F2000 they are supplying.

I checked digiweb and they supply the Fritz!box which I know used to be very good?

Just wondering is there a supplier with better router? I need one ot cover a large area as house is big bungalow and very stretched out

ED E

Eirs is best.

F2000 > AVM Fritz > HG658C (Vodafone) > Sky Hub IMO.

No unit will cover a bungalow well. They can't, the TX power is too low for so many walls. You should buy a set of homeplugs or run ethernet through the attic to APs and not purchase a service based on the equipment provided (like buying your electricity based on the colour of the bill).

Shefwedfan

ED E wrote: »

Eirs is best.

F2000 > AVM Fritz > HG658C (Vodafone) > Sky Hub IMO.

No unit will cover a bungalow well. They can't, the TX power is too low for so many walls. You should buy a set of homeplugs or run ethernet through the attic to APs and not purchase a service based on the equipment provided (like buying your electricity based on the colour of the bill).

Hi, I have already invested in AV500 Wifi Extenders for the house.

I am not purchasing a solution based on the equipment

There is a number of reasons why I would go with a solution but the router will be one of them. I had previous experience of Eir when the router was a piece of sh*t. Even sitting beside it and you would hardly get a good connection.

Didn't think asking on a forum for some advice was an issue? Is that not what a forum is for?

guil

Shefwedfan wrote: »

Hi, I have already invested in AV500 Wifi Extenders for the house.

I am not purchasing a solution based on the equipment

There is a number of reasons why I would go with a solution but the router will be one of them. I had previous experience of Eir when the router was a piece of sh*t. Even sitting beside it and you would hardly get a good connection.

Didn't think asking on a forum for some advice was an issue? Is that not what a forum is for?

No one said there was a problem but your post looked like you were basing what isp to go with purely on what router they supply.

mass_debater

Just go with the cheapest and buy your own router. The cheapest is Vodafone btw.

Terminator

I would appreciate some recommendations too. Recently switched from Eircom to Vodafone but no longer have wifi in the garden and its spotty upstairs too. Already have a TP extender but that stalls from time to time.

guil

Terminator wrote: »

I would appreciate some recommendations too. Recently switched from Eircom to Vodafone but no longer have wifi in the garden and its spotty upstairs too. Already have a TP extender but that stalls from time to time.

With what you will pay in cancellation fees it would be cheaper to buy your own router and have it for whatever provider you go with.

Shefwedfan

mass_debater wrote: »

Just go with the cheapest and buy your own router. The cheapest is Vodafone btw.

Vodafone not really cheapest if you go with bundle of mobile/BB/home phone

editorsean

At my workplace we have the Eircom F2000 and it indeed has surprisingly good Wi-Fi coverage considering the size of the building. I can pick up a near full signal on my phone 4 concrete walls apart from the router and a usable signal after the 5th wall. With the previous Eircom Netopia router, the signal was only usable after the 3rd wall and it was hit & miss connecting after the 4th wall. The F2000 has 802.11ac also.

Despite the Fritz Box using internal antennas, I have a full signal in every room in our 4 bedroom bungalow home with the laptops and a near full to full signal on the phones. Although Fritz Boxes are available with 802.11ac, the Fritz Boxes Digiweb supply just have 802.11n.

When we were with Vodafone about a year ago, they provided the Huawei HG658c and we had to use a pair of HomePlug adapters with a wireless access point to cover the whole house. Without the access point, the end rooms furthest from the router had usable Wi-Fi (moderate signal) with laptops, but the phones kept dropping the connection. It was similar with the earlier Eircom Netopia router, going back a few years ago.

Shefwedfan

editorsean wrote: »

At my workplace we have the Eircom F2000 and it indeed has surprisingly good Wi-Fi coverage considering the size of the building. I can pick up a near full signal on my phone 4 concrete walls apart from the router and a usable signal after the 5th wall. With the previous Eircom Netopia router, the signal was only usable after the 3rd wall and it was hit & miss connecting after the 4th wall. The F2000 has 802.11ac also.

Despite the Fritz Box using internal antennas, I have a full signal in every room in our 4 bedroom bungalow home with the laptops and a near full to full signal on the phones. Although Fritz Boxes are available with 802.11ac, the Fritz Boxes Digiweb supply just have 802.11n.

When we were with Vodafone about a year ago, they provided the Huawei HG658c and we had to use a pair of HomePlug adapters with a wireless access point to cover the whole house. Without the access point, the end rooms furthest from the router had usable Wi-Fi (moderate signal) with laptops, but the phones kept dropping the connection. It was similar with the earlier Eircom Netopia router, going back a few years ago.

Perfect, exactly what I wanted to know

I think I will go with Eir just because the combination deal works for me.....

deezell

Shefwedfan wrote: »

Perfect, exactly what I wanted to know

I think I will go with Eir just because the combination deal works for me.....

I've just upgraded last a week ago to Fibre lite from Digiweb. I'm delighted with my new speed of 43Mb down, 20Mb up, ideal for streaming from my house, All National and UK calls for 40 a month, 5 less than i was paying for DSL. But thats not what this is about. They supplied the Fritz!box 7430 as the router, and it rocks. Really easy to use interface, with a web account version for access away from the house. Because my phone is now VoIP, calls are handled by the router, and the ordinary house phone plugs straight in. The Fritz box has Dect, so instead of splitting the connection to my Dect base units, i just use them as chargers and register the handsets straight to the router. One of them is an Eircom 4012, about 18+ years old, and it registered flawlessly. I now have full monitoring of all my call traffic, from which hand set, numbers times etc. all logged on the router. The Dects can call each other but also the wired phone, so I have a PBX In the house. It also has an answering machine built in, and it emails you the audio of messages saved on it. A brilliant feature is the ability to put an app on you mobile, called Fritz!fon, which turns your mobile into an IP phone handset. landline calls coming in will ring your mobile, and you can make calls from your mobile via the router instead of the mobile network. Everybody's mobile becomes a phone extension when in the range of the router, and can call each other, or the dect or wired phones as part of the local PBX. TodayI installed an alternative IP phone app name CSipSimple, silly name, which does as the Frtz!fon app does, but by setting up a point to point VPN on the router to my mobile, I was able to use my mobile as a phone extension while it was connected to the internet over 3G, outside the wireless lan. So I can make a call from my house phone while not in the house. I have to test it say using a free wifi connection, but it is possible, just a question of getting the VPN right and adding the IP phone app on the mobile as a telephony device. This router is the business, and Digiwebs rates and backup are the best IMHO.