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Replace VF with third party mesh router

jawwad
2: Seeker
2: Seeker

Hi all

im looking to see if anyone has repalce the VF router with a WIFI6 Latest router?

i have FFTP and i want to replace the VF ROUTER as i have gigafast 900meg from city fiber installed in M Keynes.  I understand people have posted the info i need.  but i want to know if anyone can reccomend a latest router mesh to replace it and how they did the setting exactly!

  • i want to get a latest router mesh to replace it WIFI6 AX6000 or so as good as orbi rbk850 or similar
  • needs to work in my garden office which has issues (even though its 30m from my router, i want to get over 400 meg or even better via a satellite in my office connected via cat 6 line to my pc)
  • 2 satellites (one for office and one for the home extension dead spot area)
  • happy to pay to get latest one which can run min 50 deivces or so
  • dont want to pay subscrition for security 
  • allow me to run the sky QHD box and 2 x minis maybe on a seperate wifi (the main box and my sons gaming are located next to the router so i will hard wire them to my new router i hope)
  • budget 1k will be ok as long as it works!

has anyone done this with the same FTTP and replaced with mesh router and if so pelase send me the model if it fits the above criteria and send me all the detials. i think a lot of people want to do this.... why are the companies who supply bb not doing more!????

 

please post if you can suggest a model with above specs that is proven to work and replace vf router

Jawwad

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CrimsonLiar
16: Advanced member
16: Advanced member

The speeds that you want, at the distance you want, with the constraints, make this a rather tall order.

To get the 400Mbps speed you want in the garden office would be best managed by running an ethernet cable if that's possible.  Otherwise, you are probably looking at either using powerline, or a directional antenna mounted on the outside of the house.  To get 400Mbps from a powerline, it'd need to have a path that doesn't cross from one ring to another via house power panel, and you'd probably be looking at powerlines based on g.hn (Devolo Magic type).  If the garden office is of the "summer house" type, with mostly wooden construction, then you might get 250-300Mbps with just a directional antenna on the outside of the house (having first got the signal to the antenna) pointing at the office.  To get any higher, you'll probably need a point to point link, as a consumer you'd probably be looking at devices from the likes of Ubiquity!

*There are TV antenna/Satalite installation firms in many areas that have branched into the field.

 

As for reliably getting Sky Q boxes to work with anything other than Sky broadband for some users, no matter what hardware they use, it seems to be a tall order!

 

50+ devices!  If a great number of these are on the 2.4GHz band and there is a concentration of them in one area, then you might want to consider giving them their own access point (not just a different SSID/Guest network/or Mesh point).

 

Final recommendation:  Get an expert who can perform a survey and whose feet you can hold to the fire if it doesn't work!

Hi i think i can get 400mbs and i will tell you why.

i had tried a experiment.... i used to have a 500 meg fiber sky router which i pluggedinto the back a borowed orbi rbk850 system (connected into the skyroouter )  and  when i ran okolo speechecker on my office pc i was getting 400mbs on the office pc (my office 30 m away or it might be 25m away...!! and it was connected via cat 6 cable to a second orbi satellite).  So i know its possible to get 400meg from a 500meg line.  i dont need a cable because ive see it works.  now this orbi base station was not set up as a router, it was using the cat 6 cable from the old sky 500meg router.  i think theese new mesh systems are expensive but they have dedicated channels or something reg tri band and they defo can keep signal strong.    yes my shed office is wooden and large windows and its clear line of sight to the router so i think that would expalin it as there are no thick walls...just glass and air!

 

the new orbis and tohers can get 100plus devices and so do others... and they are tri band so its splitting it all across the three bands hence i think the dedicated freq is chosen for my pc im guessing