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Sky Superfast Broadband which Netgear Nighthawk
Hi Folks I am looking for recomendations. We have Sky Superfast broadband with their standard sr203 router which is BAD! We have dropouts and after research have come to realise there is a fundam...
You might be better off investigating a mesh system like a triband orbi. If you're getting good speeds where the router is but not at distances, then a mesh might be better off.
Thank you. I don't think it is the distance so much as the fact that the Sky router has an issue with more that 10 devices connected - it causes a drop out. It is a known Sky issue (not widely publicised by Sky). We have a booster which Sky provided which gives the coverage. But when more than 10 devices are being used concurrently we get drop outs and unstable internet. Which has led me to consider replacing the router.
Its a good consideration.
Not sure if you can replace the skybox entirely, it'd depend on their compatible gateways but you should be able to connect a router to the sky device. Just depends on if the sky gateway has a passthrough/modem only mode or if you'd need to use a dmz option.
How big is the home?
What are the interior walls made of?
What speeds do you subscribe to (and actually get)?
Reason I ask is it'd change what router i'd recommend. AX devices are great but if you don't have the need for them, sometimes a higher end AC router or mesh system is better.
Unfortunately the Sky router doesn't have a modem only mode. Not sure whether it is relevent but I am aware we need MER (IPoE) to authenticate and In order to pass authentication we would need to clone the SKY router's WAN MAC address to the interface, and then pass DHCP option 61 and 60 - client-id and class-id. (I have pulled this off other forums and will need to explore how to do this as its stretching my knowledge somewhat!!!)
We have a 4 bed detached house. There has been some extension work so internal wall are a mix of breeze block and stud walls (a few steels around too!!)
On the whole we get reasonable speeds to the router. In fact a speedtest now show 80Mbs download. Our guarenteed speed is 51Mbs.
Our Sky Q setup already provides a mesh through the SkyQ mini boxes (if you are familiar). The mesh can be turned off if required.
Thanks for your help so far!
michaelkenward knows 10x more than me about the dsl side of things based of the posts. I'd just confuse the issue. :)
If you can get a router connected to the sky setup with everything forwarding properly, I'd probably look at a mesh system versus a single router solution, especially if you're using one now.
You put its a 4x bedroom but not size.
Breeze block as in cinder block or in decoration? Cement/brick/concrete tend to do a great job of blocking wifi.