Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me. I have spent the past few days reading and reading, trying to find a reliable if not the best ADSL modem wifi router on the market. I am from the UK. The reason is simple. I have just been made redundant. I have to watch my outgoing. To cut a long story short, I have changed my energy, phone and broadband supplier to one company, saving quite a large sum annually. The broadband part, this company is supplying three choices of Technicolour wifi modem routers depending on the size of the property. I used Amazon's customers' comment about these routers, none of them is good. I am currently with BT, using their Home Hub 4 or 5. I have no problem with them but BT is just too expensive compared to this new company. Also, using Which.co.uk, this company has very very good customers feedback hence the decision to change supplier to this company. Anyway, back to the problem of choosing a decent ADSL modem WiFi router.
There are so so many on the market now. And worst, different websites seem to suggest different products as the "best" one. Again, I use the customers' feedback/comment on Amazon as a reference. From my experience using Amazon, if the product has a high ratio between the best comment and the worst comment, around 10%, e.g. if 70% of the comments are 5 stars and the worst ones is around or less than 10%, then this product is good to buy. But of course, the number of customers has to be large. I tend to choose products with over 100 comments if it is something to do with electronics. Anyway, I digressed. I would be most grateful if someone has good experience with their choice of ADSL modem WiFi router, please let me know. I have no budget, well, around £200 max. I live in a one-bedroom flat so I don't need Mesh setup. There are roughly around 4 devices connected to the internet, more when my daughter is back from Uni. Oh, another thing, I don't have fibre optics. Due to where I live, BT deemed that it is not economical for them to install fibre optics even though there is fibre optic cable less than 100 metre out at the main road. I have been waiting for that for over 15 years. Sigh. One other question, can I use my existing BT home hub with the new company or is it hardware restricted? Many many thanks for your help in advance.
There are so so many on the market now. And worst, different websites seem to suggest different products as the "best" one. Again, I use the customers' feedback/comment on Amazon as a reference. From my experience using Amazon, if the product has a high ratio between the best comment and the worst comment, around 10%, e.g. if 70% of the comments are 5 stars and the worst ones is around or less than 10%, then this product is good to buy. But of course, the number of customers has to be large. I tend to choose products with over 100 comments if it is something to do with electronics. Anyway, I digressed. I would be most grateful if someone has good experience with their choice of ADSL modem WiFi router, please let me know. I have no budget, well, around £200 max. I live in a one-bedroom flat so I don't need Mesh setup. There are roughly around 4 devices connected to the internet, more when my daughter is back from Uni. Oh, another thing, I don't have fibre optics. Due to where I live, BT deemed that it is not economical for them to install fibre optics even though there is fibre optic cable less than 100 metre out at the main road. I have been waiting for that for over 15 years. Sigh. One other question, can I use my existing BT home hub with the new company or is it hardware restricted? Many many thanks for your help in advance.