BT broadband with 3rd party router

asada — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 10:05:24 GMT

For all my fellow community members from the UK with BT broadband, I have a couple of questions. As I’m sure most of you will already be aware, the BT Smart Hub 2 isn’t as great as it’s made out to be. It doesn’t have Wi-Fi 6 and the speed drop off when a bit of range from the router is factored in is abysmal.

For context, I have BT Full Fibre 900 which gives me download speeds to the hub of 900Mbs and a speed guarantee of 700Mbs. Again, this is just to the hub and as I said above, the speed over Wi-Fi drops off to about 300-400 even stood right next to the router. I have a 2 story, 3 bedroom semi-detached house and the speeds upstairs drop off to about 150.

My questions are:

Do any of you with BT broadband use a 3rd party router with Wi-Fi 6? If so, does it improve yours speeds over Wi-Fi and the overall speed range of the Wi-Fi?

Is it easy to set up the 3rd party router with BT broadband?

Any help/advice/guidance on the matter would be great appreciated!

Re: BT broadband with 3rd party router

kelper — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 16:39:26 GMT

Under the laws of physics, which BT and other ISPs can't override, signal strength diminishes with distance!

If you talk to BT Business, you can probably get some range extenders at no cost.

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