Found this earlier whilst looking for a replacement for my Sky Hub router that has better Wifi performance, and it seems to be a good price for an AC 750 router with built in modem and a range of other useful features (USB port, VPN support etc). £39.99 on Amazon and the Currys/PC World sites, so seems a decent saving.
This is an ADSL router so it will work out of the box with Standard ADSL (non fibre) broadband, without requiring another modem plugged into it. I believe it will also work with VDSL (fibre) but you'd need to connect an external modem (i.e. BT Openreach) to the WAN port. You could probably also use it as just a wifi access point if you wanted to let your ISP modem/router do all the main work, but leave the wifi signal to this router.
Downsides... The USB port is only 2.0 not 3.0. Lan ports are only 10/100 rather than gigabit, but beyond that I can't see anything else near £30 that offers significantly more useful features. For me these aren't dealbreakers as the USB would only be used to share a printer, and our 17mb adsl isn't going to be wasted with megabit lan ports.
All comments (39)
markevans31
25 Mar 16#1
It's a good deal but no gigabit ethernet ports.....not voting either way
jh787 to markevans31
25 Mar 16#3
Why not?
All things considered Is it
a good price or not ?
Do you know of anywhere where it's cheaper?
ngangekrubally
25 Mar 16#2
Tempted to buy this as a replacement for my sky fibre router.
korless
25 Mar 16#4
Great at this price.as stated above its about the price of device not what it can and cant do :smile:
tan159
25 Mar 162#5
Cold in my view. If you want a better router for sky, just get the black sky router model sr102. Loads on ebay & It will be plug & play, no setup needed.
ahenners to tan159
26 Mar 162#6
It's what I have... SR102 doesn't have great signal in certain areas of the house. It's also only single band 300mbps and has no USB port to share a printer. Thanks for the advice
dt_matthews to tan159
26 Mar 162#10
The sr102, if the several I've had are typical, aren't that great, poor signal strength / attenuation.
tezray
26 Mar 161#7
I have the sr102 only issue I have is limited port forwarding you can only use so many before they stop working but I don't want to spend £100 on a descent router although it sits there giving me so much it's a lot of money for something you pay no attention to after setup
Zetec Andy
26 Mar 161#8
Sky's SR102 can't handle fibre pro speeds via wifi and max out at 44mb, that's the issue I'm having at the moment.
yubious to Zetec Andy
26 Mar 16#11
i thought sky fibre is limited to 38mb? the WiFi signal is pretty poor on the sky hubs tho!
leeparsons
26 Mar 16#9
It's not a bad deal. I purchased a belkin cant remember the model, as my sky sagem one was crap for wifi. Lucky i new had to extract my username and password. But the belkin died, but it was a model that unders the tc would be replaced for another. Mind i got a upgrade to n600. Lol what belkin doesnt realise, i could claim for another, as my tc are with previous model.
Sky wants to charge for a new one. But why would i pay them, for that crap they give out.
This looks great for money
spannerzone
26 Mar 16#12
Not bad for an ADSL2 modem router with dual band. If you're looking to get fibre then this modem can be used with a seperate BT VDSL fibre modem (you use the EWAN port on this)
If you want a cheap ADSL/VDSL fibre all in one modem router then consider the W9970 which is only £3.30 more BUT is not dual band wifi.
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Opening post
This is an ADSL router so it will work out of the box with Standard ADSL (non fibre) broadband, without requiring another modem plugged into it. I believe it will also work with VDSL (fibre) but you'd need to connect an external modem (i.e. BT Openreach) to the WAN port. You could probably also use it as just a wifi access point if you wanted to let your ISP modem/router do all the main work, but leave the wifi signal to this router.
Downsides... The USB port is only 2.0 not 3.0. Lan ports are only 10/100 rather than gigabit, but beyond that I can't see anything else near £30 that offers significantly more useful features. For me these aren't dealbreakers as the USB would only be used to share a printer, and our 17mb adsl isn't going to be wasted with megabit lan ports.
All comments (39)
All things considered Is it
a good price or not ?
Do you know of anywhere where it's cheaper?
Sky wants to charge for a new one. But why would i pay them, for that crap they give out.
This looks great for money
If you want a cheap ADSL/VDSL fibre all in one modem router then consider the W9970 which is only £3.30 more BUT is not dual band wifi.