topic Re: Upgrading Sky Router in Broadband

Upgrading Sky Router

GFletch — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 17:45:22 GMT

I currently have a Sky Broadband Hub.
I'm looking to improve the coverage of my router by upgrading to a third party router, as we live in a large house.
The price of the router would not be an issue, we just want to purchase the best one for us, to increase speed and coverage, more than 4 ethernet ports would be nice as well but not necessary.
What would you recommend upgrading to and how?

Here are the current Sky router stats if needed:

Router Statistics

System Up Time: 21:08:12

Port Status TxPkts RxPkts Collision Pkts Tx b/s Rx b/s Up Time WAN MER 9108445 20917594 0 196709 3005743 15:33:30 LAN Up 29735232 26816721 28 4677089 5538411 21:08:12 WLAN (2.4 GHz) Up 2817083 589328 0 1426872 37356 02:12:36 WLAN (5 GHz) Up 36499583 23558483 0 0 0 02:12:40

Broadband Link Downstream Upstream Connection Speed 38799 kbps 7321 kbps Line Attenuation D1(16.6 dB) , D2(46.0 dB) , D3(79.6 dB) U0(5.0 dB) , U1(34.7 dB) , U2(0.0 dB) Noise Margin 5.4 dB 6.1 dB

Re: Upgrading Sky Router

GFletch — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 17:58:04 GMT

Just to add, around 20 devices use the internet and up to 4, normally 2/3 use for gaming at a time, mostly via ethernet.

Re: Upgrading Sky Router

TimmyBGood — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 19:08:42 GMT

@GFletch wrote:

around 20 devices use the internet and up to 4, normally 2/3 use for gaming at a time,

Unfortunately I'd observe that the best router in existence isn't going to help that much with less than 40Mbs arriving at the address. However, having something which can do bandwidth priority might at least get more to the gaming devices at the expense of the other hardware.