Hi, I have come across this forum from a fair bit of Googl'ing, hope this is in the right section. I am looking for some advice on a replacement router please.
I have a Netgear R8000 which is a few months old, but quite honestly it's the biggest POS I've had the displeasure to use. I'm therefore looking for something to replace it and am doing some checking and investigating before making the next purchase!
To state the current issues with the Netgear, the primary problem is it needs rebooting to fix random problems and slow downs. Every now and again the WAN performance just grinds to a halt, reboot the R8000 and all back to normal. And then Wifi slow downs and randomly kicking off all Wifi clients is far too frequent for the cost of the unit, again solved with a reboot. For reference I had zero issue on the old free Sky router I had before this for probably 5 years, not a single WAN, LAN or Wifi issue once! Perhaps lucky, but also indicative to me in just how useless the R8000 is.
I also have found if you enable either parental controls or the built in Bitdefender security - the WAN performance tanks (support pages seem littered with this complaint of them). So I am not even able to use the router for everything I bought it for.
Therefore the primary consideration for the next router is it must be stable. The second consideration is I do not want it to slow down if I enable security features. My line is a 300Mbps FTTP line (the R8000 drops to an intermittent 200Mbps with the features enabled).
I've got 3 on the sort of short list:
Many TIA, Rich.
I have a Netgear R8000 which is a few months old, but quite honestly it's the biggest POS I've had the displeasure to use. I'm therefore looking for something to replace it and am doing some checking and investigating before making the next purchase!
To state the current issues with the Netgear, the primary problem is it needs rebooting to fix random problems and slow downs. Every now and again the WAN performance just grinds to a halt, reboot the R8000 and all back to normal. And then Wifi slow downs and randomly kicking off all Wifi clients is far too frequent for the cost of the unit, again solved with a reboot. For reference I had zero issue on the old free Sky router I had before this for probably 5 years, not a single WAN, LAN or Wifi issue once! Perhaps lucky, but also indicative to me in just how useless the R8000 is.
I also have found if you enable either parental controls or the built in Bitdefender security - the WAN performance tanks (support pages seem littered with this complaint of them). So I am not even able to use the router for everything I bought it for.
Therefore the primary consideration for the next router is it must be stable. The second consideration is I do not want it to slow down if I enable security features. My line is a 300Mbps FTTP line (the R8000 drops to an intermittent 200Mbps with the features enabled).
I've got 3 on the sort of short list:
- Asus: The older AC86U is fairly cheap and was well received, but fairly old hat now. Potentially for buying one and then if needed another to run AiMesh with ethernet backbone appeals. But would the newer AX88U be a better purchase, is it worth twice the price though!?
- The new Qnap QHora looks like it packs a punch in terms of hardware - the software might be a little basic in the current implementation - is anyone running one?
- The other thought is the Ubiquiti Alien, but seems like it's either not realised in the UK or very hard to get hold of? (I am put off by the UDM due to reported fan noise?)
Many TIA, Rich.