Wi-fi router recommendations please.

If you are sufficiently 'techie', you might wish to try putting OpenWrt on it.

I will not try to provide simplified instructions. Careful reading of the web-page above and the link to the installation instructions for a related device (

Sid.

I've never had any problem with my TP-Link TD-W9970 N300:

I don't know whether it does that. You can download the manual from the Argos site if you want.

Open source router firmware can be brilliant. As well as OpenWRT, there is also Tomato, mature, very stable.

AIUI Tomato is slightly more user friendly than OpenWRT.

In message snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com, David Paste snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com writes

I am using a Fritzbox 7530 with Repeater (large, old house with solid granite walls) and am very pleased with both. The 7530 has a USB socket into which is plugged a 4TB external hard drive as NAS, allowing sharing of films or whatever with the family, via wi-fi. No stuttering or lag.

See recent threads here which helped me set everything up, although as you already have a similar setup, you probably won't need help.

Sidney Endon-Lee formulated on Friday :

Seconded...

I have that on my main router, which is ex-BT and it is absolutely rock stable. It remains connected for years without issue, but it is quite easy to add a line of code to have it reboot once per day/week.

I'm not!

I'm going to do it anyway! Wish me luck.

Stupid question time:

Is this third-party firmware OK to use with banking websites, online purchases, etc?

Thanks.

yes, security for websites happens between e.g. your browser and the bank's server, the router doesn't enter into it ...

Thank you very much!

UPDATE: I have braved the murky waters and installed it. Seems to work, who'd have thought it!

Just got to let it work for a while now, see if the failing issues have gone.

Thanks for your input!

Those mains plug in devices, besides being probably illegal under the wireless telegraphy act for interference, have been known to upset devices running from the mains due to the high levels of RF coming in via the mains itself. Sometimes you can cure this by a ferrite on the mains cabling of the appliance. There are a lot of routers around just now which offer the facilities you want, Mine is fine, but I'd suggest not using an older one if your internet speed is over a few megs, since they cannot cope with the input from your isps router in modem mode very well, causing weird lock ups and the like. Brian

I am running with a Draytek Vigor 2762 - sort of /top of the range domestic/entry level SOHO/ type stuff.

Everything it says it does that I have tested, it does. It has not missed a beat.

It is ADSL and FTTP/cable capable, and has two phone ports for VOIP It is not cheap however.

Thank you. This OpenWRT firmware seems OK so far, but the facilities for FTP and media serving is an effing nightmare.

One day I will run a proper ethernet cable out to the garage.

On Saturday, 12 September 2020 08:41:18 UTC+1, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote

The OpenWRT firmware is doing well so far but the add-ons for FTP and media serving are useless for me, I am nowhere near competent enough to make it happen. I have tried following various instructions, installing usb drivers, NTFS things, to no avail. It really isn't user-friendly for the average chump, beyond putting the basic firmware on the router.

(I am not complaining to you, these are just my experiences!)

I will try to get a simple GUI driven rasperry pi answer to the FTP and media serving (if such a thing exists).

Further update to this story:

I decided to remove the FTP and DLNA facilities from the OpenWRT firmware and just have it as a regular wifi router. It performed admirably for several weeks when the WAN port crapped out. I don't know why. I tested the cat5 cables, etc, hoping it was that. Ah well, can't win them all.