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[Mr Skrunts]

Interesed in knowing what the cost is is.

Mine is £2,50 for phone and 7mb broadband plus line rental.  broadband has no restrictions or limits

[aaronjb]

Probably somewhere around proportional, based on what I pay for 150Mb.

[scimmy_man]

we used to get 0.8 on a good day, BT were useless as we are at the end of a long cable,
a mate suggested EE mobile, Im paying £30 a month for 25gb, you can get 1gb for £10, 3gb for £15, 15gb for £20,  etc

free modem with a sim card in.

[Andy H]

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4289765296

Probably time for me to switch 

[chrisgixer]

  I'm getting 000.45mbps currently. it's utterly hopeless.


Not on Virgin obviously. Virgin data speed is very good Ime. (Way better than anything serviced by open reach will ever achieve  ) it's virgins boxes that are the wheek link with them. Super hub 1 is iffy at best. You need super hub 2, which isn't brilliantly reliable, if the data speed via wifi drops off over the next weak and your constantly resetting the damn thing then I'd suggest ringing Virgin and get them to take you through box settings to optimise performance. Wpa2 security helps and isn't the standard setting.

If it's still dropping off, acquire a decent router. Most will give better  wifi range if nothing else.

[aaronjb]

Virgin 150Mb, obviously.. The "Super Hub" is in modem mode hooked up to a TP-Link router running dd-wrt for routing and an Airport Extreme for WiFi..

[chrisgixer]

Virgin 150Mb, obviously.. The "Super Hub" is in modem mode hooked up to a TP-Link router running dd-wrt for routing and an Airport Extreme for WiFi..

Speaking of modem mode... Do you remember discussions on that n900 wifi router a while back? I got one and thought it was brilliant at the time. Not that I know much about these things, I was coming from a super hub 1 at the time so anything would seem better.

Well, I sent it back as we acquired a super hub 2 which also has a dual band set up same as the n900. So I didn't see the point in spending £80 quid Just to achieve another 20ft of wifi range. The super hub 2 covered the whole property anyway.

Stupid boy pike, I know. As the super hub 2 doesn't perform as well, it's just not reliable enough I have since found. Although to be fair, as a virgin minion pointed out, it is trying to support 13 devices

So... Point is I wanted to buy the n900 again. It's no longer available from PC world. 


....so, I got one of these instead.

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/networking/networking/cable-wireless-routers/netgear-r6250-ac1600-dual-band-wireless-cable-router-21427886-pdt.html#cat-0


Range seems worse that the super hub 2. it barely makes it past the front door, where as the n900 reached the other side of the road and all the way to the end of the back garden and more.

So we're back to the spear hub 2. It needs a reset almost once a weak.

Suggestions...?

Edit to add, I like the idea of modem mode with a wifi only router. Just to replace the wifi on the superhub2. Which appears to be its weakest point In that we always recieve a rock steady 53mb by cable, but Depending on the mood of the sh2(t) wifi, that can diminish to nothing as and when it feels like it.

[aaronjb]

Here I've found the Airport Extreme (I know, crApple etc) has the best range of any router I've tried (as I can still use the WiFI sitting on the drive or in the garage with the router in the lounge at the other end of the property) and has been rock solid stable.

I'm not using it for routing but from what I hear (from those who have) as a basic router it's just a stable; though in true Apple style there are no 'advanced' options (which is why I have a separate router doing all the DHCP, DNSmasq etc etc).

I'd recommend it but it's far from cheap..

[edit] The TP-Link I also have wasn't bad for WiFi either, actually, not far off the Airport.. I have a spare one of those if you want to borrow it to test.

[chrisgixer]

AirPort Extreme looks handy. Does it give much range beyond the walls of the house? Ie covers the garage or and pateo etc...?


Ah, you just answered my q

I'm unfamiliar with the terms tbh. Routing being Ethernet cables? We only have a printer and her work lap top using cable to the router.

All else is wifi, although the amp/PS3/Xbox use cables to a BT Ethernet only extender in the lounge.


...so it's the rock solid wifi with decnet range that's needed.

[aaronjb]

Routing is what lets your internal network (which has one IP range, say 192.168.0.x) talk to the internet with it's many other IP ranges.. the router has to know how to route packets from point A to point B.

But, anyway .. for 99.9% of consumers the AirPort Extreme would do everything they need (it would "just work") - I just have odd needs like wanting a static IP address on certain things, multiple IP ranges and so on, hence the separate router.

[chrisgixer]

Sounds like good to me.


I'd just get fuddled with all that other stuff (arguably fuddled already )

[chrisgixer]

Routing is what lets your internal network (which has one IP range, say 192.168.0.x) talk to the internet with it's many other IP ranges.. the router has to know how to route packets from point A to point B.

But, anyway .. for 99.9% of consumers the AirPort Extreme would do everything they need (it would "just work") - I just have odd needs like wanting a static IP address on certain things, multiple IP ranges and so on, hence the separate router.

....and do I understand this correctly...
http://www.macworld.com/article/1167395/new_airport_express_a_tiny_wi_fi_base_station_powerhouse.html
...in that the express can be added, and works by linking via the EXISTING wifi on the AirPort Extreme to give a further linked base station? Daisy chained via wifi, so to speak.

[aaronjb]

Yep, although it's far from the only device that can do that .. it's new for the Apple devices but not new for most other WiFi routers

[EMD]

 

[hoj]

Don't be mislead by the companies that give you fibre optic broadband
Yes it is fibre optic ....... To the nearest junction box from there to your home is copper wire
So if your nearest box is a mile away your speed drops